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Sylvan historian.(Frederick Ashton, ballet)
The more one loves ballet, the more one loves Ashton. There he was in South America, a thirteen-year-old boy struck in the heart by Anna Pavlova's arrow, a flash of fire through a snow flurry of pirouettes. So many of us struck by the same arrow, not necessarily Pavlova's, but pulled from a classical quiver, Fonteyn's perhaps, or Shearer's, Tallchief's or Makarova's or Farrell's. Frederick Ashton desired, breathed, reached for ballet for seven years once wounded. It wasn't until twenty that he took his first ballet classes--with the great Leonide Massine no less, part pasha, part Puck, his eyes like the Fayoum portraits, and his temper so intense he broke things when ...
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