Word: fonteyne
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...stage was covered with dancers as the company unveiled Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan's lavish new version of Romeo and Juliet. For many in the celebrity-studded audience, headed by Vice President Hubert Humphrey and U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, the sole attraction was Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn in the lead roles. If they came hoping to see the classic couple in a round of flashy virtuosity, they left disappointed...
Dart & Dash. Choreographer MacMillan, striving to project the psychological motivation of the star-crossed lovers, leans more on drama than dance. Beyond a lovely pas de deux in the first act, Nureyev and Fonteyn had little chance to display their glittering technique, so involved were they in acting out the complexities of the plot. Nureyev, despite a wig that looked like a wet dishrag, was a compelling and thoroughly convincing hero. Free of exaggeration, he masterfully portrayed Romeo as a roustabout turned rapt lover. The evening, however, belonged to Fonteyn. Though 45, she was every inch the teenage Juliet, brimming...
Panting Hostesses. In Manhattan, Nureyev was the man of the hour, and he relished every minute of it. At a post-performance party, he exuberantly danced the watusi and the frug with Fonteyn, soundly bussed one of the pretty girls from the corps de ballet. Hostesses panted for his presence. Because of rehearsal commitments, he had to turn down a dinner invitation from Jackie Kennedy (see MODERN LIVING...
...couldn't be Nureyev on the cover of TIME. Where is the fierceness of this Tartar, the aggressiveness and the ever-present savage mystery? The colors the artist chose would have been better utilized for illustrating Dame Fonteyn...
...even suspects Fonteyn of dark plots. "Maybe," he grimly ponders, "it's that Margot has gained very much from this dancing with me, and me much, much less, until now I am sitting alone on the floor, tired and exhausted. Maybe it's that she has taken from me because she wishes to be the one to survive." Lest she forget, every year Nureyev reminds Margot that she has one less year to dance. Says Margot: "Rudolf is very mature artistically, although immature emotionally...