No ballet that opens with a group of dancing chickens – including a rooster that seems to be auditioning for the Ministry of Silly Walks – is taking itself too seriously. And, indeed, the Royal Ballet ...

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Nadia Nerina, an enchanting and virtuosic ballet dancer who inspired choreographer Frederick Ashton’s enduring comedy “La Fille Mal Gardee” and outperformed Rudolf Nureyev, died Oct. 6 at her home in ...

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 ...

As the autumnal nights get darker, La Fille mal gardée radiates sunlight in ballet form. This countryside comedy by the Royal Ballet’s late founder choreographer, Frederick Ashton, overflows with ...

The sugar-averse may wish the choreographer had done without the (real) Shetland pony and (human) chorus line of chickens. Discovering that Ashton's cockerel was doing the John Cleese walk 20 years ...

Watching principal dancer Danielle Brown executing the brisk series of hopping kicks on pointe required in her role as Lise, the country girl in Sir Frederick Ashton's "La Fille mal Gardée," Margaret ...

Marianela Núñez said of La Fille mal gardée during a rehearsal that it was just what this heavy world needed right now. The much loved Frederick Ashton classic has not been seen on the Covent Garden ...

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 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 ...

Revival of Frederick Ashton’s joyful romcom is a sunny delight You forget how many props are involved in a production of this ballet. The performers are variously called on to dance inventively with ...