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Sir Frederick Ashton, Britain's greatest choreographer, was a major figure on the cultural landscape of the twentieth century and his influence extended far beyond the world of dance. Julie Kavanagh traces Ashton's progress with a keen and sympathetic sense of both the man and his milieu. The drama of his professional and private life - among his close associates were Constant Lambert, Benjamin Britten, W. B. Yeats, the Sitwells and Cecil Beaton - is skilfully interwoven with vivid descriptions of the ballets themselves. 'Not only the best biography of a ballet figure but, far more important, a Proustian recollection of that glamorous near-mythical time, the first half of our now setting century.' Gore Vidal

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Book category Books in English The arts Dance & other performing arts Dance

• Full title: Secret Muses
• Subtitle: The Life of Frederick Ashton
• Author: Julie Kavanagh
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 704
• EAN: 9780571190621
• ISBN: 0571190626
• ID: 04623154
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Weight: 1262 g
• Dimensions: 137 × 216 × 50 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. September 2004

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