ballerina of the 20th century. She is widely regarded as one of the greatest classical ballet
dancers of all time. She spent her entire career as a dancer with the Royal Ballet, eventually being appointed Prima Ballerina Assoluta
of the company by HM Queen Elizabeth II.
Fonteyn was born Margaret Hookham on 18 May 1919 in Reigate
, Surrey
, to an English
father and an Irish
and Brazil
ian mother; her mother's father was the industrialist Antonio Fontes of Brazil.
What a beautiful step! I shall never be able to do it.
Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the very first time.
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.