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...Joshua Junker’s Never Known deploys its 20 dancers with confidence (and a large pinch of Crystal Pite-style clustering) to a (taped) score by electronic classicist Nils Frahm....
...Animals are fun to do, after all: think of Frederick Ashton’s chickens or the witty menagerie in Matthew Hart’s much-missed Peter and the Wolf....
...Crystal Pite shows us the dark side of the corps de ballet in 2017’s Flight Pattern, an ensemble piece about refugees and migration set to a plangent dirge by Henryk Gorecki which brought the evening to...
...After some three years of feasibility studies and exploration, the initial joint venture of CRA (later Rio Tinto) and the Ashton Mining consortium began to grasp the significance of their find – and realised...
...Not having the ugly sisters danced by men in drag (as Frederick Ashton did in his 1948 production) often creates difficulties. The humour takes on a misogynistic taint....
...“To be very crystal clear: Finland has not been a problem. Finland has been part of the solution,” Alex Stubb, Finland’s centre-right prime minister, told the Financial Times....
...Others include two of the rare female choreographers in ballet: Crystal Pite and Helen Pickett....
...In addition to caviar and thoroughbred horses, that list also includes “truffles and preparations thereof”, crystal glassware, high quality musical instruments and billiards equipment....
...“People get concerned about surveillance and Big Brother but this is the sort of thing that government can’t ignore,” says Kevin Ashton, a technology analyst at Cannacord Genuity....
...Ashton knew whereof he spoke: his last big ballets, Two Pigeons and La Fille mal gardée, were just such, succinct, potent....
...Matches in Marylebone will host a thrice-yearly art show, curated by Karen Ashton (of Art Car Boot Sale), arranged around the quiet periods in the fashion calendar, in June, October and March....
...There’s no shortage of technology available,” said John Ashton, the UK’s special envoy on climate change, speaking from Beijing this week....
...But Norwich threw everything forward and Ashton headed his third goal in four games....
...Wolves’ stiffest challenge is likely to come from Crystal Palace, who, extraordinarily, have managed to hang on to both prolific scorer Andy Johnson and Iain Dowie, the manager....
...In Mr Jiang’s sights were 50 to 60 small factories producing indium, a metallic element used in the manufacture of semi-conductors and liquid-crystal display screens, near the Xiang river, about an hour...
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