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Look who's here. Dame Margot Fonteyn

Title
Look who's here. Dame Margot Fonteyn [videorecording] / CBC Television Production.
Publication
Canada : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, c1976.

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Additional Authors
  • Fonteyn, Margot, 1919-1991.
  • Fonteyn, Margot, 1919-1991
  • Nureyev, Rudolf, 1938-1993
  • Thomson, Lorraine.
  • Ashton, Frederick, 1904-1988
  • Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
  • DHCA.
Description
1 videocassette (28 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)
Summary
Ballerina Margot Fonteyn discusses her ballet training and early career ; the experience of performing during wartime ; the fit and durability of pointe shoes, costumes and rehearsal clothes ; remembering choreography for various roles ; making guest appearances ; her first tour of the U.S. ; her stage name ; her collaboration with choreographer Frederick Ashton ; the myth of dancers' suffering ; her husband's reactions to his paralysis ; how a good partnership works. The program opens with a brief performance excerpt from Ashton's Marguerite and Armand, danced by Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev.
Uniform Title
Marguerite and Armand (Choreographic work : Ashton)
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Interviews.
  • Video.
Credits (note)
  • Executive producer, Don Brown.
Performer (note)
  • Interviewer: Lorraine Thomson.
  • Interviewee: Dame Margot Fonteyn.
Event (note)
  • Telecast on the series Look who's here on June 1, 1976.
Call Number
*MGZIA 4-3431
OCLC
NYPY99-F630
Title
Look who's here. Dame Margot Fonteyn [videorecording] / CBC Television Production.
Imprint
Canada : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, c1976.
Country of Producing Entity
Canada.
Event
Telecast on the series Look who's here on June 1, 1976.
Credits
Executive producer, Don Brown.
Performer
Interviewer: Lorraine Thomson.
Interviewee: Dame Margot Fonteyn.
Added Author
Fonteyn, Margot, 1919-1991. Narrator
Fonteyn, Margot, 1919-1991, dancer.
Nureyev, Rudolf, 1938-1993, dancer.
Thomson, Lorraine. Interviewer
Ashton, Frederick, 1904-1988, choreographer.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
DHCA.
Added Title
Marguerite and Armand (Choreographic work : Ashton)
Research Call Number
*MGZIA 4-3431
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