Word: fonteyn
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...stylish company noted for its sumptuous productions of the standard repertoire, the Royal is celebrating its 50th anniversary this season with a tour of North America. As the Sadler's Wells Ballet, it burst upon the American scene in 1949 with an exquisite Sleeping Beauty that introduced Margot Fonteyn to U.S. audiences. The Royal's reworking of the Petipa-Tchaikovsky masterpiece became its signature, and was featured on its current tour with a performance attended by the visiting Prince Charles...
...Dartmouth game, the most important contest to date for the cagers, junior captain Caryn Curry led the way with 25 points. Curry is clearly the team leader. With the poise of Patton under fire and the elegance of Fonteyn under the lights, she alternates between point guard and forward...
...Dance is not only ballet. It's everything and everywhere," says Dame Margot Fonteyn, who ought to know. Britain's prima ballerina has narrated a six-part BBC series, The Magic of Dance, scheduled to air in the U.S. in the fall. To film the show, Fonteyn, 59, visited a ballet school in Peking, chatted with Fred Astaire in Los Angeles and inter viewed Nijinsky's daughter in Manhattan. Outside Athens, she saw the remains of a "temple of dance" built in 1904 by flamboyant American Dancer Isadora Duncan. "Isadora had a passion for children...
...colleagues will hate me for saying it," says Hungarian-born Dancer Ivan Nagy, 35, "but the ballet is the original women's liberation profession. It is created for females." The impeccable partner to such ballerinas as Dame Margot Fonteyn and Natalia Makarova, Nagy is now planning to retire from the American Ballet Theater before weary leg muscles make him earthbound. Pouts Makarova: "He is the most lyrical dancer, and I will miss him." What will Nagy miss the most? "When I am dancing with a woman onstage and it works, I feel that I love her, and that sort...
...often contrasted with her more classical colleague, Anna Pavlova. After the Russian Revolution she fled to England, where she became the country's best-loved dancer, appearing as a guest artist through the 1920s. She later worked with English Choreographer Frederick Ashton, advised Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, and wrote an eloquent autobiography (Theatre Street) that stands as a classic of dance literature...