Royal Ballet and Opera | The Royal Ballet: Scènes de ballet (Vadim Muntagirov) @RoyalBalletAndOpera | Uploaded October 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
Vaidm Muntagirov and dancers of The Royal Ballet perform in Frederick Ashton's Scènes de ballet

Sometimes called Ashton’s most modernist work, Scènes de ballet is an expression of the art form distilled to its purest essence. Ashton pays homage to balletic tradition by celebrating – and sometimes, subverting – its conventions. Inspired by Marius Petipa and the Russian ballet titan’s love of symmetry, Ashton utilised principles of Euclidean geometry to serve as floor patterns for his choreography. There are also references to the Rose Adage from The Sleeping Beauty. Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes danced the roles of the Principal couple during its premiere in 1948. 

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