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Canadian-born choreographer

Aszure Barton is a Canadian-born choreographer.

Career

Aszure Barton was born and raised in Alberta, Canada.

She received her formal training at the National Ballet School in Toronto, where, as a student, she helped originate the ongoing Stephen Godfrey Choreographic Showcase. To date, she has collaborated with and created works for Mikhail Baryshnikov, Ekaterina Shipulina/Bolshoi Ballet, The National Ballet of Canada,^[1] Houston Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, The Martha Graham Dance Company,^[2] Nederlands Dans Theater, Sydney Dance Company, Ballet British Columbia, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, The Juilliard School, Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal (Resident Choreographer 2005-08)^[3] and English National Ballet.^[4] Other work includes choreography for the Broadway revival production of The Threepenny Opera.^[2] Her work has been described as "offer[ing] an entire world, full of surpr