Lynn Wallis and Isabel McMeekan in Guayaquil, Ecuador, 2019.

The Frederick Ashton Foundation is supporting a ‘Tribute to Frederick Ashton’ to be given by the En-Avant Dance Company in Guayaquil, Ecuador as part of their programme at the Teatro Sánchez Aguilar on 25 and 26 October 2019. The company comprises young dancers and this is reflected in the divertissements which have been selected for the programme: two extracts from Les Patineurs, the Fonteyn solo from The Wise Virgins, an extract from Valses nobles et sentimentales and the Tango from Façade.

The extracts are to be taught, rehearsed and staged by Ashton Repetiteur Lynn Wallis, assisted by Isabel McMeekan, a former First Soloist with The Royal Ballet and a participant in the Foundation’s shadowing scheme to train up future Ashton Repetiteurs.

See Dancing Times article (January 2020) on the visit and on the unveiling of a statue of Sir Frederick Ashton outside his birthplace

September 2019