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...Crossroads. In its first Manhattan week, the Royal Ballet proved again that in such romantic ballets as Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake it is matchless in the West. At 41, jewel-like Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn is one year beyond the age at which it was once rumored she would retire. But she exhilarated audiences with her fluid, exquisite enchaine-ment and her seemingly gravity-free grace, though purists insisted they detected a slight falling-off from the sureness of her performance in New York three years ago. Later in the week the troupe unpacked La Fille Mai Gard...
Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* This one was taped in London. Guest stars include: Sir Ralph Richardson, Dame Margot Fonteyn, Michael Somes...
Good Italian ballerinas are about as scarce as Russian boccie bowlers. But audiences at La Scala last week cheered a 23-year-old dancer, daughter of a Milan streetcar conductor, who was all but stealing the stage from Britain's famed Margot Fonteyn. Occasion: the world premiere of Fantasy at Grand Hotel, starring Ballerina Carla Fracci...
...years Choreographer Ashton had worked mostly with Margot Fonteyn's classical, dramatic talents in mind (she is semi-retired). In La Fille, noted London critics, he had done something different-"an open-air, sunlit ballet as perfect of its kind as the moonlit Sylvia or Ondine or the chandeliered La Valse." But the enthusiastic response did not alter Ashton's gloomy estimate of the ballet public. "I feel," said he, "that most people still think choreography is something to do with the feet-like chiropody...
Malcolm Ticknor and Matilda Cole Ticknor '59 will star in the review, supported by Margot Walk, Dean Gitter, and Robert Silver '59. Choreography is by Lenore Friedland, Brandeis...