Wikipedia:WikiProject Ballet/Royal Opera House editathon

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The Royal Opera House organised an editathon focused on Sir Frederick Ashton, the Royal Ballet's founding choreographer and one of the foremost figures in twentieth-century ballet, hosted at the Royal Opera House in central London on 22 June 2013. The day may provisionally include some form of behind-the-scenes tour, though we're still working on organising the details. Please do sign up now and keep the date free if you're interested!

We improved the coverage of Ashton and his works, which are not well represented on Wikipedia. Only around 15% of his ballets have articles, and the main biography had been neglected for several years (although it does exist in fourteen languages!). As well as subject expertise, the ROH provided books and material from their library and archive collections, including ephemera such as newspaper cuttings, photographs, and programmes; the archive holds a portion of Ashton's papers.

One of the ROH's ambassadors blogged about this event.


 * Date: Saturday 22 June 2013, 10am–3.30pm
 * Venue: Crush Room at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (directions).
 * Participants: Several staff members and some external writers as well as interested Wikipedians.
 * Registration: Please sign up below - now closed!
 * Cost: Free.
 * Contacts: Any questions? Please contact, , or

Participants
Below is the sign up list before the event. There were 14 attendees on the day - Wikipedia editors: 9 / non‐Wikipedia editors: 5.


 * 1)  Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits
 * 2) Andrew Gray (talk)
 * 3) GuillaumeTell 10:54, 1 April 2013 (UTC) (I don't have a laptop)
 * 4) User:Tim riley can bring a spare laptop for Guillaume if needed. Tim riley (talk) 16:12, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Not sure I'll have a laptop. Johnbod (talk) 14:04, 4 April 2013 (UTC) Sorry, in budapest then
 * 1) I'd like to participate, please. (cprn24)
 * 2) Gareth E Kegg (talk) 00:05, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
 * 3) Edwardx (talk) 22:55, 5 June 2013 (UTC) Yes please, but I will need to borrow a laptop.
 * 4) Andrew Davidson (talk) 06:34, 6 June 2013 (UTC)  I've been to the Royal Opera House several times already.  I have even had a ballet lesson but am no Billy Elliot.
 * 5) [Email to AG]
 * 6) [Email to AG]
 * 7) Ivan Hartley
 * 8)  Ϣere  Spiel  Chequers  15:21, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
 * 9) The Land (talk) 18:19, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Articles

 * We aimed to focus on some particular works we had supporting material for, but all contributions were welcome. An example framework for a ballet article is here.

Articles edited on the day

 * A Month in the Country (ballet)
 * A Tragedy of Fashion - new
 * La fille mal gardée (Ashton)
 * La Valse
 * Meditation (Thais)
 * Monotones (Ashton) - new
 * Pas de deux - substantial expansion
 * Rhapsody (Ashton)
 * Symphonic Variations (ballet)
 * the Tales of Beatrix Potter (ballet) - new
 * Voices of Spring (Ashton)

Selected works

 * Façade (1931)
 * Façade (ballet)
 * Symphonic Variations (1946)
 * Symphonic Variations (ballet) (ROH)
 * Cinderella (1948)
 * Cinderella (Ashton) (ROH)
 * Sylvia (1952)
 * Sylvia (Ashton) (ROH a, ROH b) - broader article currently at Sylvia (ballet)
 * La Valse (1958)
 * La Valse (ROH) - only mentions a Balanchine ballet?
 * Ondine (1958)
 * Ondine (ballet) (ROH)
 * La Fille mal gardée (1960)
 * La fille mal gardée (Ashton) - broader article currently at La fille mal gardée (ROH)
 * Marguerite and Armand (1963)
 * Marguerite and Armand (ROH)
 * The Dream (1964)
 * The Dream (ballet) (ROH)
 * Monotones Nos. 1 and 2 (1966)
 * Monotones (Ashton) - single article covering Monotones I and Monotones II?
 * Meditation from Thaïs (1971)
 * Meditation from Thais - currently redirects to the composition (ROH)
 * A Month in the Country (1976)
 * A Month in the Country (ballet)
 * Voices of Spring (1977)
 * Voices of Spring (Ashton) (ROH)
 * Rhapsody (1980)
 * Rhapsody (Ashton) (ROH)
 * Tales of Beatrix Potter (1992)
 * The Tales of Beatrix Potter is about the 1971 film

Templates

 * Navbox Frederick Ashton
 * Infobox ballet

Resources

 * performances by Ashton at the ROH
 * performances choreographed by Ashton at the ROH