Fonteyn, Margot (1919-1991)
Prima ballerina of the British Royal Ballet for over forty years, Margot Fonteyn was one of greatest dramatic dancers of the twentieth century. Fonteyn was the first baller...
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Dame Margot Fonteyn (born Margaret Hookham; 1919-1991) was an outstanding and beloved classical ballerina with an extensive career, from 1934 to 1979. She danced for England's Royal Ballet, putting Br...
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Ovation TV programming executive Kris Slava believes he knows what plays in Peoria.It's the same entertainment that sells in New York, Chicago, San Antonio and the rest of America, said Slava. Ovat...
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NUREYEV: THE LIFEBy Julie KavanaghPantheon, 800 pages, $37.50
“I will never return to my country, but I truly believe that I will never be happy in yours.â€
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Part pooh-bah, part pontiff, for some 50 years Leo Lerman ruled Manhattan’s cultural roost from a host of journalistic redoubts, including Mademoiselle, Vogue and Vanity Fair, ending his care...
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The Sleeping Beauty is the greatest, most challenging and most vulnerable of classical ballets. Everything can go wrong with it, and all too often, everything does. Most of us have an ideal Beauty ...
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These past few years, American Ballet Theatre has been spreading its wings, and this past week it soared. The occasion was the company's new production of Frederick Ashton's three-act ballet Sylvia...
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“I am tired of the ‘Six.’ I am weary of Erik Satie. I am fed up with Malipiero. The music of Zoltán Kodály has begun to pall on me. I have consigned my Arnold Schoenberg...
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“I am tired of the ‘Six.’ I am weary of Erik Satie. I am fed up with Malipiero. The music of Zoltán Kodály has begun to pall on me. I have consigned my Arnold Schoenber...
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Fonteyn, Margot (1919-1991)
Dame Margot Fonteyn
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