#margot fonteyn

[audreyhepburninblackandwhite]

Audrey Hepburn, prima ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn, and Mel Ferrer during a ballet in Paris, 1957. Photography by Sid Avery

[dozydawn]

“Dame Margot Fonteyn returning from Panama to her birthplace at Reigate, Surrey, last Saturday, to unveil Nathan David's bronze statue portraying her in her favourite role as Ondine the water sprite. The statue was paid for by ballet lovers.”

[operaqueen]

Margot Fonteyn

[dance-world]

Margot Fonteyn, Robert Helpman, and Pamela May in Paris in 1945 with the Sadler's Wells company, dancing for the troops - photo by Serge Lido in Danse - Masques, 1947

[fayriequeene]

Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev - Swan Lake

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

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“Sit in a chair and keep still. Let the dancer's shoulders emerge from your shoulders, the dancer's chest from your chest, the dancer's loins from your loins, the dancer's hips and thighs from yours; and from your silence the throat that makes a sound, and from your bafflement a clear song to which the dancer moves...” Leonard Cohen, Book of Mercy

[peturnagy]

Rudolf Nureyev and Erik Bruhn photographed rehearsing, Dance Magazine Cover Shot 1965

Photographer: Jack Mitchell

[lovelyballetandmore]

Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann and Margot Fonteyn. 1948.