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Dame Margot Fonteyn de Arias, DBE (18 May 1919 – 21 February 1991), was an English ballerina. She is widely regarded as one of the greatest classical ballet dancers of all time. She spent her entire career as a dancer with The Royal Ballet, eventually being appointed Prima Ballerina Assoluta of the company by Queen Elizabeth II.
Fonteyn was born Margaret Evelyn Hookham on 18 May 1919 in Reigate, Surrey to a British father and a half-Irish half-Brazilian mother. Her mother's father was a Brazilian industrialist Antonio Fontes. Very early in her career Margaret transformed "Fontes" into "Fonteyn" (a surname her brother also adopted) and Margaret into Margot. Among her father's family were people in literature and music, but he was an engineer.
At four years of age her mother signed her up for ballet classes with her older brother. At age eight, Margot made the long journey to China with her mother and father, who had taken employment with a tobacco company there; her brother Felix remained at his school. For six years Margot lived in TianJin, then Shanghai, where she studied ballet with Russian émigré teacher George Goncharov. Her mother brought her back to London when she was 14, to pursue a ballet career. Continuing to work in Shanghai, her father was interned during World War II by the invading Japanese.
Tchaikowsky - Swan Lake - Rudolf Nureyev - Margot Fonteyn
Margot Fonteyn / Rudolf Nureyev: Giselle (PAS DE DEUX FROM ACT II)
Margot Fonteyn interview 1984
Margot Fonteyn Rose Adagio
Margot Fonteyn - Ballet - Thames Television
"Balcony Scene" from Act II of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet (Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn)
Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev in Darcey's Ballet Heroes
An Evening with the Royal Ballet, Rudolf Nureyev, Margot Fonteyn, 1963
Margot Fonteyn.FILM.Reflects on Life and Dance Worldwide.Part 1.
NUTCRACKER Act II Grand Pas De Deux - Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes
Actors: Lindsay Duncan (actress), Penelope Wilton (actress), Carlton Jarvis (miscellaneous crew), Derek Jacobi (actor), Michele Buck (producer), Amy Roberts (costume designer), Damien Timmer (producer), Anne-Marie Duff (actress), San Davey (miscellaneous crew), Con O'Neill (actor), Michiel Huisman (actor), Tatiana Lavrentieva (actress), Christian Wolf-La'Moy (actor), Celia Duval (producer), Jinx Godfrey (editor),
Plot: At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the Royal Ballet. Then the exciting young Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, a recent defector to the West, comes into her life and her bed and revitalizes her career. Frederick Aashton creates a new ballet for them and they become the golden couple of the ballet world. However, Margot is married to Roberto 'Tito' Arias, a Panamanian politician of dubious repute who is not sympathetic to her calling and is probably faithless. When he is shot and paralyzed for life Margot must carry on dancing well into her sixties in order to pay for his costly treatment though she still collaborates with Rudolf in the occasional ballet.
Keywords: ballerina, ballet, character-name-in-title, dancer, gay, gay-man-has-sex-with-a-woman, homosexual, one-word-titleActors: Leza Lidow (director), Leza Lidow (producer), Leza Lidow (writer), Kory Goetzman (producer), Sonny Childers (actor), Cesar Smith-Diaz (actor), Stan Hancock (actor), Lynda Lefever (actress), Veronica Chavira (miscellaneous crew), Min Lee (editor), Maxine Pink (actress), Yelena Moiseyeva (actress), Giovanna Gentilli (actress), Vera Wong (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Tchaikowsky - Swan Lake, Act 4 - Pas de deux Rudolf Nureyev - Margot Fonteyn 1966
Giselle (PAS DE DEUX FROM ACT II) BBC STUDIO RECORDING, RECORDED 2 JUNE 1962 - Philharmonia Orchestra/Robert Irving London Symphony Orchestra/John Lanchbery Pro Arte Orchestra/Marcus Dods This DVD features stunning performances of some of the most popular and enduring works in the ballet repertoire. Nadia Nerina is at her most charming and beguiling in Les Sylphides and Coppélia, while the pas de deux from Giselle showcases the legendary partnership that is Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev in rare footage of one of their earliest collaborations. The ICA Classics Legacy series presents a collection of historical performances by some of the world's greatest artists. These performances are released on DVD for the first time, incorporating rare archive footage that has been expertly and lov...
Excerpt from ActI of Sleeping Beauty shown on Fonteyn's 'Dancers world' series
An extract from a recently discovered interview with ballet Superstar Dame Margot Fonteyn DBE. Filmed by the Thames TV 'Today' in her Dressing room in 1976 If you would like to license this clip please e mail archive@fremantlemedia.com
"Balcony Scene" from Act II of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet Rudolf Nureyev as Romeo Margot Fonteyn as Juliet Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden John Lanchbery Filmed in 1966
Documental sobre el Royal Ballet que data de 1963. Incluye selecciones de los ballets, "La Valse", "Las Sílfides", "El Corsario" y "La Bella Durmiente". Su merito es mas como documento histórico valioso, que como producción audiovisual ya que deja mucho de desear. Grandes nombres en el mundo del ballet, Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev y el Royal Ballet, agregue un poco de coreografía,la música, unas cámaras en frente de ellos en dos o tres días de rodaje, y tiene usted una pelicula bastante mediocre como tal, pero que muestra el inmenso arte de esos artistas. En consecuencia un aprobado por "los pelos" para el realizador y productor y un sobresaliente para la pareja mas famosa de todos los tiempos en la danza clásica. Cast by Margot Fonteyn Rudolf Nureyev David Blair Antoinette Sibley ...
Title says it all really. The Prima Ballerina-----her personal opinions on her life in the world of ballet. Arguably the greatest ballerina of the 20th. Century,and her partnership with Rudolf Nureyev was truly magical. ENJOY. PART 1.
Here is a 1958 TV broadcast of the Act II Pas De Deux from THE NUTCRACKER danced by the incomparable Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes. This was a few years before Nureyev gave her a whole new career, and she is either 39 or 40 in this tape. She was born in 1919. The tempo is correct and the one-handed pirouettes are exactly how Balanchine wanted them. This choreography is probably the closest to the original Petipa/Ivanov.
An extract from a recently discovered interview with ballet Superstar Dame Margot Fonteyn DBE. Filmed by the Thames TV 'Today' in her Dressing room in 1976 .
London. Various shots of famous British ballet dancer Margot Fonteyn answering questions of the reporters in the interview room at London Airport. She is interviewed about her husband's whereabouts, he is lost in Panama - natural sound. She is saying that she has no idea where he is. She denies having contact with unknown man who claims to have been in contact with her and her husband. She is unhappy with London press and refuses to talk about Panama. (Comb. Orig. Neg.) Date found in the old record - 01/04/1959. FILM ID:3152.13 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT'S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. http://www.britishpathe.tv/ FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT http://www.britishpathe.com/
Buenos Aires: Arrive at Ezeiza International Airport, the Russian dancer and choreographer Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn English dancer; on the runway are greeted by a group of people. Then board a plane to take to the Aeroparque Metropolitano Jorge Newbery. General views of Rudolf Nureyev Margot Fonteyn traveling on the plane and talking with reporters Monica and Andrés Percivale Mihanovich. First close-ups taken from the plane in flight, where the buildings of the Federal Capital and the stadium of Club Atlético River Plate are observed. Close-ups of aircraft taxiing by Austral aeroparque track. Close-ups of the dancers Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn descending aircraft. General views of numerous photographers and cameramen covering the news aeroparque track. This interview with M...
These are two fascinating interviews with the daughters of legendary Ballets Russes super star, Vaslav Nijinsky. This first is an interview to camera with Kyra Nijinsky, with the interviewer being none other than and appropriately Dame Margot Fonteyn. The second is a telephone interview with Tamara Nijinsky, conducted by the Los Angeles Times on 3rd November 1994. Here is the transcript of that second interview: Q: What do you remember from the years you lived with your father? A: Basically, I remember that he was a very, very quiet person. I just remember him sitting in an armchair by the mantelpiece, although when we were together he seemed to be always smiling like a delighted little boy and he was happy to see me. There was an understanding smile, although we never talked with wor...