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 British ballet on the international map. Margot...

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 ballerina trained in a British school and company to achieve international stature....

Dame Margot Fonteyn de Arias, DBE, (18 May, 1919, Reigate, Surrey, United Kingdom - 21 February, 1991, Panama City, Panama), the British prima ballerina assoluta, was considered the greatest ballerina of her...

Dancing and death MARGOT FONTEYN by Meredith Daneman Viking, £20, pp. 654, ISBN 0670913375 £16 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 I thought at first that this was going to be a truly marvellous book, and in many ways it is, but I...

SHE haunts the memories of the Royal Opera House audience, especially in this centenary year of Sir Frederick Ashton's birth, when so many of the ballets that he made for the great ballerina are being revived. Now comes a warmly intelligent biography which...

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. Ovation TV, a decade-old arts channel that has relaunched with national satellite distribution and...

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.” —Rudolf Nureyev Julie Kavanagh’s Nureyev: The Life initially came to me in “galleys”—that is, a reviewer’s copy, without...