Further to my previous comment, Dame Margot was not young for a dancer at the time, but we were struck by her stage-presence and grace. So small, yet you saw no-one else. Just wonderful.
My mother took me to see Dame Margot on her last tour of Australia in the early 70s. I saw her at the Regent Theatre, in Sydney. It was a beautiful, opulent old theatre. It was later pulled down to be a car-park, but worse still, it became junky clearance shops. Is this how we treat art?
True!!! I saw her dancing with Nureyev when i was only 8 , in London, and she "bewitched" me ...From that day on i only thought about becoming a dancer!
@@serenitypeaceandcomfort3669 I have had it since 1969 given to me by a costume hire company in the north of England..I have one of hers and one of Antoinette Sibley's and also Judith Sinclair...
Caroline Brook Boysen She was everything to him too. Age meant nothing to them; they had such a special artistic and personal bond. The whole world made breathless just to see it.
Margot Fonteyn was my inspiration to take ballet lessons. I studied with the Royal Ballet in California; they had a studio in San Marino in the 60's. I was fortunate to see Fonteyn dance the Swan Lake pas de deux with Baryshnikov in the 70's, a moment I still remember as if it were yesterday.
My later teacher- she was from ABT shool and learned also in Petersburg and made her graduated there- danced with Margot and Rudolf in Swan Lake. That was in Salzburg at the Festspiele. Two years later she became my teacher- she had pretty feet like dancer's have today and her arms had this russian elegance and her movements we're amazing! she thought us vaganova stile.
I studied Vaganova method with Irina Vassilieff after our family moved from California to Virginia. She arranged my masterclass with Edward Villella. She was the best teacher I ever had and saw my potential. She was in her mid-fifties and overweight due to the cortisone shots she took for emphysema; but when she demonstrated a leap, she seemed to float and you never heard her land. Everything she did seemed effortless.
More than the most famous danseuse England had produced. On-stage, she came across as the Queen of England. She seemed like royalty. One would feel like bowing down and swearing allegiance to her. When she spoke, she sounded of the royal family too. To many of the aspiring, wishing, hopeful ballerinas of this world... Ms. Fonteyn was proof that one can achieve such a rank... even if one doesn't just seem "born for it." --A Lifelong Fan, Dane Youssef
I’d also add…..Rudolph brought attention to ballet bc of his behavior outside ballet. His God given talent, plus his flamboyant personality…..he was a force to reckon with…..❤
So elegant and so exquisite - I love how she's so intuitive and honest with each question she answers. ...as for that rude person coughing in the background, she sort of ruined this interview. If you're going to cough so much, at least have the decency to excuse yourself, go outside, and cough as loudly as you'd like. :/
Плохо то, что руководство королевского театра отказали ей в выплате пенсии, где она танцевала, платила налоги, своими гастролями, выступлениями приносила доход театру, ведь зрители шли в театр на её спектакли и выступления, чтобы смотреть на неё, Руководители королевского театра отказали ей в пенсии, учитыаая её высокие гонорары. А она много денег тратила на лечение своего мужа. И каково это, не имея возможности работать, в пожилом возрасте остаться без пенсии? Не поняли этого руководители королевского театра. Неужели нельзя было выплачивать хотя бы минимальную сумму, пенсию минимального размера? Так низко оценили её талант руководители королевского театра. Это ужасно.
I almost ran her down in Piccadilly, London. I had stopped at traffic lights and when they changed to green, I began to move. Suddenly, a petite woman with black hair and wearing a bright red coat, hopped and skipped across the road. I slammed on the brakes and avoided hitting her, thank goodness! She took a dreadful risk running across as the traffic began to move.
Gloria Hunniford said that Margot Fonteyn was a snowflake in the Nutcracker suite. Surely she was a snowflake in the Nutcracker, as I've never seen dancers at a performance of the suite.
Her life became quite hard taking on Tito. He cheated on her and she had to become the bread winner as he had spent all his money on a campaign. She had to take care of him in a primitive location which must have been exhausting and challenging for her at her age.
I'm sure Panama would have had telephones but she ended up living a primitive life after having great strain thrust upon her whilst caring for her paralysed husband. Her personal life played out like one of her ballets. So sad 😥 and yet she still beamed with magic😇
Although even being a great admirer of Dame Margot Fonteyne, I must say that a part of this interview really bothers me. She just does not give Rudolph Nureyev the credit he deserves...especially when being her dance partner. He did a lot for her at that time, as she was just about to retire, but was very much in need of financial help. The partnership proved very, very beneficial for her in several ways that she does not seem to acknowledge here at all.
She admits all that in another YT video, that she was getting on and thought he would revitalize her career. He thought she would boost his too, but they became great lovers. She was everything to him. He said so.
She needed money for the care of her paralysed at-home husband, Tito. And in those days the general public where not entitled to mail over every last detail of a person's private life.
Finally I read my thoughts. I watched other video about them. Her fame rose up when she started dancing with Rudolf and she actually choose him , he only started his short career , was big magnet in sociaty, he had huge charisma. She learnt from him a lot specially Russia ballet style. She speak about him with distance, like about a boy from cast. He doesnt deserve that attitude. Now I start not to like her.
ugggh the wonderful interview was destroyed by the annoying cough(like an armalite) in the background. Sounds like a female coughing. Should have excuse herself and went outside of the studio.
Great interview. However, that coughing audience member should have been escorted OUT!!! Geez! That cough was persistently sickening and very distracting for this viewer.
