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...When I am dancing with him," says Dame Margot Fonteyn, "and I look across the stage, I see not Nureyev but the character of the ballet. I don't see, as I do with others, a man I know and talk to every day. I see the ballet. He is how I would like to be, and he makes it easier for me to dance as I wish...
Radcliffe will hold its 30th Commencement exercises at 11 a.m. today in the academic Yard, or in Sanders Theatre, in case of (shudder) rain. Victor L. Butterfield, president of Wesleyan and father of Margot '62, will deliver the address...
After the curtain had fallen last week on the Royal Ballet's production of Giselle at London's Covent Garden, Dame Margot Fonteyn plucked a single long-stemmed red rose from one of her many bouquets and with a deep curtsy presented it to her young partner-ex-Kirov Ballet Danseur Rudolf Nureev. The young Russian lowered his eyes, sank to his knees and kissed the assoluta's hand. The audience exploded in an ovation that lasted through 23 curtain calls...
...defection. Ballet fans who have watched him in Paris call him the outstanding male dancer in the West-and probably in the world-and compare him favorably with Nijinsky. A gifted soloist, he is also known as a superbly good partner of the kind that 42-year-old Margot Fonteyn has too frequently lacked...
Title role of Persephone was danced by Lithuanian Ballerina Svetlana Beriosova. heiress apparent to Margot Fonteyn as the company's prima ballerina. Actually. Persephone's "dancing" proved to be little more than occasional rhythmic movements, far less important than the recitation of Gide's text, which Beriosova accomplished in a mellifluous voice with the aid of a microphone concealed in the neckline of her dress. The ballet's best dancing parts were reserved for Pluto (Keith Rosson) and Mercury (Alexander Grant). Dancer Grant appeared nearly naked wearing white briefs and a rigid, long-bobbed gold...