Further to my previous comment, Dame Margot was not young for a dancer at the time, but we were struck by her stage-presence and grace. So small, yet you saw no-one else. Just wonderful.
My mother took me to see Dame Margot on her last tour of Australia in the early 70s. I saw her at the Regent Theatre, in Sydney. It was a beautiful, opulent old theatre. It was later pulled down to be a car-park, but worse still, it became junky clearance shops. Is this how we treat art?
True!!! I saw her dancing with Nureyev when i was only 8 , in London, and she "bewitched" me ...From that day on i only thought about becoming a dancer!
I’d also add…..Rudolph brought attention to ballet bc of his behavior outside ballet. His God given talent, plus his flamboyant personality…..he was a force to reckon with…..❤
@@serenitypeaceandcomfort3669 I have had it since 1969 given to me by a costume hire company in the north of England..I have one of hers and one of Antoinette Sibley's and also Judith Sinclair...
Caroline Brook Boysen She was everything to him too. Age meant nothing to them; they had such a special artistic and personal bond. The whole world made breathless just to see it.
More than the most famous danseuse England had produced. On-stage, she came across as the Queen of England. She seemed like royalty. One would feel like bowing down and swearing allegiance to her. When she spoke, she sounded of the royal family too. To many of the aspiring, wishing, hopeful ballerinas of this world... Ms. Fonteyn was proof that one can achieve such a rank... even if one doesn't just seem "born for it." --A Lifelong Fan, Dane Youssef
Margot Fonteyn was my inspiration to take ballet lessons. I studied with the Royal Ballet in California; they had a studio in San Marino in the 60's. I was fortunate to see Fonteyn dance the Swan Lake pas de deux with Baryshnikov in the 70's, a moment I still remember as if it were yesterday.
My later teacher- she was from ABT shool and learned also in Petersburg and made her graduated there- danced with Margot and Rudolf in Swan Lake. That was in Salzburg at the Festspiele. Two years later she became my teacher- she had pretty feet like dancer's have today and her arms had this russian elegance and her movements we're amazing! she thought us vaganova stile.
I studied Vaganova method with Irina Vassilieff after our family moved from California to Virginia. She arranged my masterclass with Edward Villella. She was the best teacher I ever had and saw my potential. She was in her mid-fifties and overweight due to the cortisone shots she took for emphysema; but when she demonstrated a leap, she seemed to float and you never heard her land. Everything she did seemed effortless.
So elegant and so exquisite - I love how she's so intuitive and honest with each question she answers. ...as for that rude person coughing in the background, she sort of ruined this interview. If you're going to cough so much, at least have the decency to excuse yourself, go outside, and cough as loudly as you'd like. :/
Her life became quite hard taking on Tito. He cheated on her and she had to become the bread winner as he had spent all his money on a campaign. She had to take care of him in a primitive location which must have been exhausting and challenging for her at her age.
Gloria Hunniford said that Margot Fonteyn was a snowflake in the Nutcracker suite. Surely she was a snowflake in the Nutcracker, as I've never seen dancers at a performance of the suite.
Although even being a great admirer of Dame Margot Fonteyne, I must say that a part of this interview really bothers me. She just does not give Rudolph Nureyev the credit he deserves...especially when being her dance partner. He did a lot for her at that time, as she was just about to retire, but was very much in need of financial help. The partnership proved very, very beneficial for her in several ways that she does not seem to acknowledge here at all.
She admits all that in another YT video, that she was getting on and thought he would revitalize her career. He thought she would boost his too, but they became great lovers. She was everything to him. He said so.
She needed money for the care of her paralysed at-home husband, Tito. And in those days the general public where not entitled to mail over every last detail of a person's private life.
Finally I read my thoughts. I watched other video about them. Her fame rose up when she started dancing with Rudolf and she actually choose him , he only started his short career , was big magnet in sociaty, he had huge charisma. She learnt from him a lot specially Russia ballet style. She speak about him with distance, like about a boy from cast. He doesnt deserve that attitude. Now I start not to like her.
I almost ran her down in Piccadilly, London. I had stopped at traffic lights and when they changed to green, I began to move. Suddenly, a petite woman with black hair and wearing a bright red coat, hopped and skipped across the road. I slammed on the brakes and avoided hitting her, thank goodness! She took a dreadful risk running across as the traffic began to move.
I'm sure Panama would have had telephones but she ended up living a primitive life after having great strain thrust upon her whilst caring for her paralysed husband. Her personal life played out like one of her ballets. So sad 😥 and yet she still beamed with magic😇
ugggh the wonderful interview was destroyed by the annoying cough(like an armalite) in the background. Sounds like a female coughing. Should have excuse herself and went outside of the studio.
Great interview. However, that coughing audience member should have been escorted OUT!!! Geez! That cough was persistently sickening and very distracting for this viewer.
One of the most exquisite ballerinas ever. My idol for years. She could bring you to tears with her beauty on stage.
jane
Jo Bellomo fully agrees with you❣️
Such a classy lady. Tremendously talented and elegant.✨
she is just so sweet and gentle. I love her.
Further to my previous comment, Dame Margot was not young for a dancer at the time, but we were struck by her stage-presence and grace. So small, yet you saw no-one else. Just wonderful.
Dame Margot Fonteyn is a beautiful, talented ballerina that you always love to watch do the classical ballet! SO PHENOMENAL & TIMELESS!!!!
Everything is in the smile. It's the same joy we see when she dances.
Таким женщинам, после окончания балетной деятельности, надо становится императрицами или королевами
A wonderful, elegant, beautiful, honest great ballerina
I was fortunate to see Dame Margo Fonteyn dance
You really saw her dance? Fantastic :)
Lucky you
Always the perfect lady. A charming interview.
My mother took me to see Dame Margot on her last tour of Australia in the early 70s. I saw her at the Regent Theatre, in Sydney. It was a beautiful, opulent old theatre. It was later pulled down to be a car-park, but worse still, it became junky clearance shops. Is this how we treat art?
what a sad fate of the theater!
Everything she said about Pavlova she could have said about herself.
True!!! I saw her dancing with Nureyev when i was only 8 , in London, and she "bewitched" me ...From that day on i only thought about becoming a dancer!
Beatriz Cotello She was very modest.
@@naomideguyane великий гениальный непревзойденный НурЕЕв.
I agree
Incredible dancer!Ballerina Assoluta!
I admire her more and more as I get older, wonderful dancer and lovely woman
Gosh! If only we had such great stars like that today!
She is 64 or 65 here, and ravishing.
yes😊
The beautiful Dame Margot BRAVA !!!
I’d also add…..Rudolph brought attention to ballet bc of his behavior outside ballet. His God given talent, plus his flamboyant personality…..he was a force to reckon with…..❤
I saw her many times at Covent Garden and have one of her tutus!
I have a pair of one of the many thousands of pointe shoes.
How Lucky you are!
yolanda bentham I saw her dancing at Covent Garden once in April 1964.
How do you acquire a Margot Fonteyn tutu?
@@serenitypeaceandcomfort3669 I have had it since 1969 given to me by a costume hire company in the north of England..I have one of hers and one of Antoinette Sibley's and also Judith Sinclair...
Classy and beautiful woman, died too young.
she is beautiful !!
Elegant, elegant lady. Watch her eyes flutter when Nureyev is mentioned.........................!
Yes indeed! They say she fell for him in a big way, even though she was old enough to be his mother.
Caroline Brook Boysen She was everything to him too. Age meant nothing to them; they had such a special artistic and personal bond. The whole world made breathless just to see it.
@@veronicamatsulis4527 I know right? The love looked real to me. I just love when he lifts her high...with perfect grace and masculinity!
Nonsense. Nureyev was gay. They had a superb and quite competitive professional relationship.
Caroline Brook Boysen I
Dame Margo - always beautiful x😊
Rudy & Dame Margot forever in my ❤️ !
My favorite Ballerina.
VIVA MARGOT!!! FOREVER.
More than the most famous danseuse England had produced. On-stage, she came across as the Queen of England. She seemed like royalty. One would feel like bowing down and swearing allegiance to her. When she spoke, she sounded of the royal family too.
To many of the aspiring, wishing, hopeful ballerinas of this world... Ms. Fonteyn was proof that one can achieve such a rank... even if one doesn't just seem "born for it."
--A Lifelong Fan, Dane Youssef
Dane Youssef
Dane Youssef
Марго Фонтейн - настоящая леди👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Margot Fonteyn was my inspiration to take ballet lessons. I studied with the Royal Ballet in California; they had a studio in San Marino in the 60's. I was fortunate to see Fonteyn dance the Swan Lake pas de deux with Baryshnikov in the 70's, a moment I still remember as if it were yesterday.
how very lucky!
My later teacher- she was from ABT shool and learned also in Petersburg and made her graduated there- danced with Margot and Rudolf in Swan Lake. That was in Salzburg at the Festspiele. Two years later she became my teacher- she had pretty feet like dancer's have today and her arms had this russian elegance and her movements we're amazing! she thought us vaganova stile.
Baryshnikov????????
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I studied Vaganova method with Irina Vassilieff after our family moved from California to Virginia. She arranged my masterclass with Edward Villella. She was the best teacher I ever had and saw my potential. She was in her mid-fifties and overweight due to the cortisone shots she took for emphysema; but when she demonstrated a leap, she seemed to float and you never heard her land. Everything she did seemed effortless.
I love her.
No sé lo que dice, pero me gusta escucharla... es muy adorable su voz
её любят все...
So elegant and so exquisite - I love how she's so intuitive and honest with each question she answers.
...as for that rude person coughing in the background, she sort of ruined this interview. If you're going to cough so much, at least have the decency to excuse yourself, go outside, and cough as loudly as you'd like. :/
It's possible she couldn't easily leave her seat mid recording. Poor woman sounds like she needed an ambulance.
"In life you can't just avoid things that you think are frightening"
Magnifica Margott Fontyein 🌹🌹💙💙
Br.1...✨✨Margot Fontejn....✨✨forever....neuporediva,velicanstvena u svemu....kao i Rudolf Nureyev...✨🥇✨🥇✨🌍🕊️🌹🌹🦜🦜🌞🌿✨✨✨✨✨
One of the greatest ballerina talking about another greatest ballerina.
Elegance personified
they should've kicked out the person who keeps coughing. So annoying!
I agree!
exactly
Classy iconic dancer!
Why wasn't the coughing person taken outside, omg!!
Lol
Agreed.She should have been away from the recording.
How do you know it is a she?
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That person should have left with het annoying cough!
The 2 of them together crowds
Flocked to see
She's so much funnier and earthier than I would have expected.
love this :) ♡♡♡
Шикарная Леди
shes really down to earth
Che grazia...che eleganza...anche se non più giovane...
she was the ultimate Juliet......and rudy her Romeo.
Thanks for posting this. Did that coughing person not realize how annoying they were? Get out.
They say that she died in poverty.
I hope you are mistaken.
Yes. In Russia they would not have let that happen to a ballerina.
Lovely interview by the way
The Art Of Dancing Was Beauty 3/56
The person coughing in the background is really annoying uggg
YESSS!! See yourself OUT, MA'AM!!
Her life became quite hard taking on Tito. He cheated on her and she had to become the bread winner as he had spent all his money on a campaign. She had to take care of him in a primitive location which must have been exhausting and challenging for her at her age.
It was her choice!
Margot lived the simple life in country.
Love is enough
She has so beautiful legs. In my opinion just her age gave her the charisma. Impressive video. Ty
Margot Fonteyn the best ballerina ever
But that coughing in the audience 🙄
my ballet teacher knew her. I wonder what it was really like, talking to her and looking into her eyes and seeing her dance so beautifully.
My teacher- knows her too:-). :-)
I wonder if she was telling the truth. Was she "really" happy????
I doing a report on margot Fonteyn for my dance teachers
Who owned that dreadful cough which ruined this interview.
I met her in Chicago to sign her bio.lovely lady😍
Gloria Hunniford said that Margot Fonteyn was a snowflake in the Nutcracker suite.
Surely she was a snowflake in the Nutcracker, as I've never seen dancers at a performance of the suite.
What a great, interesting interview Margot Fonteyn gave
but Yikes-the freakin’ cougher!! 🤦🏻♀️
If I had been the producer ot the show I would have taken that cougher out of the room. Margot was exquisite all the way.
Very classy, elegant and...very british😜
British, Irish and Brazilian.
Although even being a great admirer of Dame Margot Fonteyne, I must say that a part of this interview really bothers me. She just does not give Rudolph Nureyev the credit he deserves...especially when being her dance partner. He did a lot for her at that time, as she was just about to retire, but was very much in need of financial help. The partnership proved very, very beneficial for her in several ways that she does not seem to acknowledge here at all.
You are quite right!
She admits all that in another YT video, that she was getting on and thought he would revitalize her career. He thought she would boost his too, but they became great lovers. She was everything to him. He said so.
She calls him a 'phenomenon'. So she does give him plenty of credit - e.g. doing an enormous amount to make ballet popular to young people.
She needed money for the care of her paralysed at-home husband, Tito. And in those days the general public where not entitled to mail over every last detail of a person's private life.
Finally I read my thoughts. I watched other video about them. Her fame rose up when she started dancing with Rudolf and she actually choose him , he only started his short career , was big magnet in sociaty, he had huge charisma. She learnt from him a lot specially Russia ballet style.
She speak about him with distance, like about a boy from cast. He doesnt deserve that attitude. Now I start not to like her.
Margot you are so beautiful
I almost ran her down in Piccadilly, London. I had stopped at traffic lights and when they changed to green, I began to move. Suddenly, a petite woman with black hair and wearing a bright red coat, hopped and skipped across the road. I slammed on the brakes and avoided hitting her, thank goodness! She took a dreadful risk running across as the traffic began to move.
Is that Gloria Hunniford??
It was me coughing.
MrAgai67
We all hate you.
Hahaha. Hope you are better now.
For some weird reason I was getting another interview with a man OVER the Fonteyn interview! Spoiled it.
❤️
omg no telephones in Panama
I'm sure Panama would have had telephones but she ended up living a primitive life after having great strain thrust upon her whilst caring for her paralysed husband. Her personal life played out like one of her ballets. So sad 😥 and yet she still beamed with magic😇
Cough cough cough
She's the BEST at ...''playing the duck'' ...l have ever seen! Good Swan too! Gotta love her! Sad that Arias _burned_ her so bad.
Who is the woman wearing the fluffy tan shower cap?
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8:05 "...es primitivo, pero no totalmente incivilizado..." ( Panamá)....pero soy muy, muy feliz...."
Oh Gloria! You have Dame Margot on the sofa but spend more than half the interview talking about Nureyev. Faux pas.
Can't understand why that person didn't leave. The coughing was very bothersome ..and unfairly distracting from the interview.
That person in the audience was so rude to keep coughing and not get up and leave. How disrespectful.. ruined the whole interview.
I loved this and AGREE about the annoying coughing person . . . . .
Ei! É a tradução?
class
lol ....when i was 5 and taking dance lessons i knew i could never be a pro ballerina!
Who is the interviewer? I recognise her, but I've been living outside UK for the last 40 yrs.
Gads! Who is coughing to death in the background?
Здесь ей за 60.
МАРГО , ты выглядишь прекрасно ! ИЗУМИТЕЛЬНО !
She had cancer shortly after if not then and her neck does look long it's certainly not short. ❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Hilarious. "He has the nostrils." (i.e. sniffing others' pheromones.)
coughing person in background... :(
ugggh the wonderful interview was destroyed by the annoying cough(like an armalite) in the background. Sounds like a female coughing. Should have excuse herself and went outside of the studio.
+MrTurtledove1981 good comment- u say armalite- to me a clive barker cenobite
+MrTurtledove1981 Yes, that is really distracting!
Кто там все время кашляет за кадром?
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Great interview. However, that coughing audience member should have been escorted OUT!!! Geez! That cough was persistently sickening and very distracting for this viewer.
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All that coughing!!!
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Nostrils??? Get over yourself
I love her.