The ballet's roots are in comédie sérieuse - meaning "true to life" - and it is true to life, in a rose-tinged, shiny photo album sort of way. Most young agricultural swains do not have the ...

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Jean Dauberval's La Fille mal gardée, which was first presented in Bordeaux, France in 1786, was a milestone for ballet, as it was one of the first based on real-life folk rather than mythology or ...

The standard tale of a girl whose mother wants her to marry a rich simpleton, and how she instead gets her way and marries a simple farmer, is not the point. Ashton takes this and embroiders it with ...

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Is any 20th-century masterpiece, across the entire artistic spectrum, quite as adorable as La Fille mal gardée? You have to wonder. Frederick Ashton (1904-1988) created this effervescent romantic ...