Word: fonteyn
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...Channing. Harry Belafonte, wearing one of his custom-made undress shirts, knocked out a Michael Row the Boat Ashore, slipping in a few lines about Mississippi and Alabama. Barbra Streisand belted out Happy Days Are Here Again and People for the folks listening without loudspeakers in Baltimore. Dame Margot Fonteyn and fiery young Rudolf Nureyev stopped the show with a magnificent pas de deux. Singer Bobby Darin dedicated a little number he had just turned out on the train coming into town...
Baal was a sun god, Baalbek his temple in Lebanon, and currently the site of a summer festival where Ballet Stars Margot Fonteyn, 45, and Rudolf Nureyev, 25, were dancing. Betweentimes, they had themselves a ball sunbathing at Beirut's Saint Simon Beach, she in a bikini that was utterly tutu, he in a monokini that was, as they say in London, utterly twee...
...editor in revenge for an uncomplimentary story about his re-election attempt. Last week another prominent Panamanian was involved in a shooting vendetta-on the receiving end. Lying in a Panama City hospital with severe bullet wounds was Roberto ("Tito") Arias, 45, moneyed husband of British Ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn, nephew of just-defeated presidential candidate Arnulfo Arias, and proud possessor of a long and varied career in his own right...
...openers, the company staged its pièce de résistance, a robust rendering of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, followed by a lavish, streamlined Swan Lake featuring nothing less than the reigning tandem of Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev, who had volunteered their services and spent one week of intensive rehearsals mastering the myriad refinements of Cranko's interpretation. But the creation that stirred the most frenetic response from the crowd was the première of a handsomely preened and plumed production of Stravinsky's Fire Bird, grounded in the Fokine tradition but soaring...
Killer Joe should know. A lithe, electric homunculus, he is Diskville's No. 1 dancing master, a hierophant of the subtle shades of difference between the Chicken and the Bird, the Surf and the Fish and the Swim, who has welcomed many a Big Name (Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, Hoofer Ray Bolger, Sybil Burton) to his unpretentious walk-up studio in Manhattan and makes about 30 trips a year to cities around the country to show dancing teachers how it's done...