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DESCRIPTION:May 23 - Jun 9\, 2026\nIn 1960\, Frederick Ashton decided to re
 -create an old ballet from 1789\, a comic two-act work by Jean Dauberval. 
 He later wrote\, “At the time I was reading Dorothy Wordsworth’s Journ
 als and I was swept by a longing for the country of the late eighteenth an
 d early nineteenth century: the country of today seems a poor noisy thing 
 by comparison.” He envisioned a place of “eternally late spring\, a le
 afy pastorale of perpetual sunshine and the humming of bees.” The ballet
  is La Fille mal Gardée (The Poorly Guarded Girl) and it tells the story 
 of Lise\, whose mother wants her to marry a rich simpleton even though she
  is in love with Colas. This witty ballet is also ineffably lyrical. As Da
 vid Vaughan wrote in his book on Ashton\, “Perhaps the greatest of all A
 shton’s inspirations was to take the motif of the ribbon &#8230\; and ex
 tend its use through the whole of the action until it becomes one of the m
 ost resonant metaphors in the whole of ballet.” Companies the world over
  perform Ashton’s masterpiece of delight\, but this spring you can see i
 t done by the company it was made for\, complete with Osbert Lancaster’s
  colorful designs.
LOCATION:Royal Opera House\, Bow St\, Covent Garden\, London WC2E 9DD\, UK
SUMMARY:Royal Ballet: La Fille mal Gardée
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 -mal-gardee
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