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Title: Margot Fonteyn: Autobiography by Margot Dame Fonteyn ISBN: 0-446-81380-X Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: April, 1977 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $2.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: point of view of one of the greatest dancers of the 20C
Comment: This is a wonderful look at the career of Dame Fonteyn. On one level, you witness every step in her career, from her luck at having a great teacher while her father worked in Tietsen China to her greatest triumphs with Rudolf Nureyev in the 1960s. She is gracious, humorful, and in awe of her craft and art. She treats the reader to a wonderful portrayal of her method of creativity: what she thinks about and feels, the regime of her discipline, and the institutions she became a part of. This is valuable stuff.
On another level, the reader is introduced to a vanished milieau of artists in Europe and the US, which is personal history at its best. While the politics of the 20C were viewed from the sidelines here, it was fascinating to me to learn what it did to the arts. There is also Arias, the love of her life, a Panamanian aristocrat who had a strange and dry sense of humor.
Warmly recommended for those who love dance history.
Rating: 5
Summary: Margot Fonteyn's writing and interest
Comment: Margot Fonteyn wrote a brilliant autobiography with this book. She skims over the less interesting details and concentrates on what her audience would find interesting. She candidly discusses her feelings and thoughts throughout her career, and does her best to present a fair view of herself. This book is interesting to dancers and non-dancers alike
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Title:Margot Fonteyn ASIN: B00004W19J Publisher: Image Entertainment Pub. Date: 19 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $22.49 |
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Title: THE MAGIC OF DANCE-NEW by Margot Fonteyn ISBN: 0394529065 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 12 October, 1982 List Price(USD): $10.98 |
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Title: Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal by Toni Bentley ISBN: 0813027055 Publisher: University Press of Florida Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Holding on to the Air: An Autobiography by Suzanne Farrell, Toni Bentley ISBN: 0813025931 Publisher: University Press of Florida Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title:Kirov Classics ASIN: B00006G8HI Publisher: Kultur Pub. Date: 30 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $26.96 |
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