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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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