‘The ballet really gets over the incompatibility between the supernatural people and the human characters,’ says Antoinette Sibley, who in 1964 danced Titania opposite Anthony Dowell’s Oberon in The Dream by Frederick AshtonThe Dream was the first ballet that Frederick Ashton created for Anthony Dowell and myself. In fact, and the first ballet we’d ever danced together. Ashton had never created anything important on me – he really worked with Margot Fonteyn – and Anthony didn’t realise how enormous it was.
I was Titania,proud Titania – that’s the first thing said approximately her. She’s queen of the fairies, and Oberon (Anthony) was king. We started with the pas de deux, or rather than at the beginning of the ballet,which is where we argue over the Indian boy. We get together at the end with this amazing pas de deux – I consider its one of the longest pas de deux actually, it’s six or eight minutes long.
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Source: theguardian.com