Peter Wright - As A Dancer and A Teacher

With Sir Peter Wright turning ninety, it’s interesting to look back on his early career as a dancer and a teacher.
The first series of snippets of footage show Peter Wright as a dancer:
[1] Pas De Quatre (‘Steps of the Ballet’, 1948)
[2] Solo - Ballet? Last partner?
[3] Partnering Margot Fonteyn in ‘The Nutcracker’ (BBC 1958)
[4] Partnering Margot Fonteyn in the Rose Adagio (‘Sleeping Beauty’ BBC 1959) as the Indian Prince
This last section of footage shows Peter Wright as a teacher, working with a ballerina he particularly admired, Lynn Seymour, and talking about his experiences working with Rudolph Nureyev in the classroom.
In this film you get glimpses of Maryon Lane, Georgina Parkinson and Derek Rencher? Anyone else you recognise?
Enjoy!

[@brianwhite4090]

Just watched the Nutcracker on dvd at Christmas. Brilliant! 💐

[@ecalap31]

Same. Bloody good show

[@BalletBabyBoy]

Wonderful

[@pavlaki1]

Love his Nutcracker and Giselle for RB. His choreography has such detail. Volkova's recent biography though shows that she wasn't "Vaganova trained" as PW puts it, but rather a guinea pig for the latter's emerging methods, which were later formalised.

[@felixdevilliers1]

Oh the utterly unspeakably divine Fonteyn! and Lynn Seynmour with whom I feel the deepest affinity. She had been away and I didn't know of her existence. I decided one evening that I wanted to see Giselle with a different dancer, and she it was.. My first impression was, "Who is this awkward girl?" but when I left the theatre I was floating over the ground and up and down stairs with a lightened sense of gravity and when I got home I was ffilled with a deep sense of the joy her dancing had given me.Not many videos of her.

[@simaraft7373]

Oh how I love these docus you post!

[@JohnRaymondHall]

i am obviously doco-addicted! :) but you do find interesting things in them. and in old Hollywood films, like Moira Shearer as Aurora.

[@passionballettopfru]

I love his versions of classics.

[@JohnRaymondHall]

me too - he has the taste to keep the style right.

[@sana11sana19]

✨✨✨✨

[@pediatrapaola]

thank you for sharing alex

[@JohnRaymondHall]

pleasure Enrico! :)

[@louisesmedley-hampson1828]

I could see Doreen Wells and Merle Park in the background.

[@JohnRaymondHall]

i missed them - i must look again - thanks!

[@carles03]

David Drew at the start of the barre section

[@JohnRaymondHall]

thanks for the identification Carles