Ashley Page OBE (born August 1956) is a British former ballet dancer, choreographer and was artistic director of

Scottish Ballet Scottish Ballet is the national ballet company of Scotland and one of the five leading ballet companies of the United Kingdom, alongside the Royal Ballet, English National Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet and Northern Ballet. Founded in 1969, ...

for ten years. Ashley Page was born in Rochester, Kent in August 1956. Page trained the

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, and joined the Royal Ballet in 1976. There, he worked closely with Frederick Ashton and

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, creating numerous roles in their new ballets. He also worked with visiting choreographers including

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and, especially, Richard Alston, who was to become his choreographic mentor. He was promoted to principal dancer in 1984. Page was artistic director of Scottish Ballet for ten years, from 2002 to 2012. In August 2012, Christopher Hampson succeeded him as artistic director of Scottish Ballet. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the

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for services to dance.UK list:

Ballets

* ''Guide to Strange Places'', music by John Adams (2012)

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