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Christopher Carr coaches Alisa Garkavenko in Frederick Ashton's Birthday Offering – a one-act ballet celebrating the birth of British ballet – in Part 2 of this masterclass from the Frederick Ashton Foundation.
We are performing Birthday Offering as part of our 20th-Century Masterpieces triple bill on 19 and 20 June 2026.
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Theme and Variations: performance photo gallery
The Green Table: the story of Kurt Jooss and Ballet Jooss
The Green Table: rehearsal photo gallery
The Green Table: 1990s archive photo gallery
WATCH: Birthday Offering Masterclass Part 1
Introducing Theme and Variations by George Balanchine
Introducing Birthday Offering by Frederick Ashton
Introducing The Green Table
Sir Peter Wright Centenary: Giselle photo gallery
Susan Lucas: in memory
Birthday Offering and the Ashton ballet style: insights from Christopher Carr and Ava May Llewellyn
Ballet Listening Event at Sadler's Wells Theatre