August's Ballerina: Margot Fonteyn

Fact #1- Margot's greatest ballet partnership was with Rudolf Nureyev.
Fact #2- Margot Fonteyn married Dr. Roberto Arias in 1955.
Fact #3- She retired in 1979, at the age of 60.

Fonteyn in Swan Lake

(photo by Gordon Anthony)

Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev in MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet



Ballerina Margot Fonteyn with dancer/choreographer Mikhail Baryshnikov


Margot


Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn