Pavlovan reaction. (Sir Frederick Ashton ) (obituary)

The Economist (US) | August 27, 1988 | Copyright

BORN in Ecuador in 1904, Sir Frederick Ashton spent most of his childhood in Lima, Peru, and it was there, when he was 13 years old, that he saw Anna Pavlova dance. "She injected me with her poison," he was to say later, and from the end of that evening I wanted to dance." Ashton, who died on August 19th, was to become Britain's greatest choreographer and one of the architects of what is today the Royal Ballet.

Sent to England to complete his education, he studied with Marie Rambert, who was to be his principal teacher and the first to goad him into choreography. ...

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