Margot FONTEYN

And finally, Diamonds provides key roles for WAB's most senior and best-loved dancers, Jayne Smeulders and Darryl Brandwood, and audaciously summons the ghosts of three of classical ballet goddesses: Marie Taglioni, Anna Pavlova and Margot Fonteyn.

What: Ballet classes with Kenneth Ludden, director of the Margot Fonteyn Academy of Ballet in Peekskill. Where: St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 850 Wolcott Ave., Beacon. More than just a form of dance, ballet is the study of art, music and body movement.

Cavallari has chosen two of his much shorter works ? his Le Poeme de l'extase, created for Dame Margot Fonteyn, and Jeu de cartes, based on the game of poker. "Cranko asked Margot Fonteyn on many occasions if he could create a work for her, ...

Heralded by The Telegraph (UK) as "the first British dancer since Margot Fonteyn to become a household name", Darcey Bussell is one of the greatest English ballerinas of all time. Darcey was born in London, where she danced as Principal with The Royal ...

And in the 1980s, Dobrin shined on stage as Margaret Lowin-Octeyn, a riff on actual British ballerina Margot Fonteyn. The stage names are normally Russian or something that amusingly sounds Russian. "The names we have given the dancers tend to be very, ...

On pouvait y admirer le talent de Margot Fonteyn, Yvette Chauviré et Tamara Toumanova. 19 avril 1956, mariage religieux de Rainier III et de la princesse Grace, 30 millions de téléspectateurs purent suivre la cérémonie et admirer la princesse dans une ...

Among her influences at the company were Margot Fonteyn, "a great role model", Robert Helpmann, "a wonderful actor and dancer", and the choreographers Frederick Ashton and MacMillan, as well as Bronislava Nijinska, who choreographed at Russia's ...

"Once when I was performing at the London Palladium in the 50s, the star Margot Fonteyn was performing as a guest artist. A friend arranged for me to meet her, and I said: 'Is there anything you can say to a young dancer like me?

"Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev had it. Carla Fracci and Erik Bruhn. Alessandra Ferri and Julio Bocca. Those extreme examples make it seem obvious. "But, even so, even when you find it, you run up against obstacles," he continued, ...

The 17-year-old from Traralgon, who is now nudging 182 centimetres (six feet), has just won a scholarship to study at London's Royal Ballet School, where the likes of Dame Margot Fonteyn, Darcey Bussell and Sir Kenneth MacMillan trained.