Margot Fonteyn
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Dame Margaret Evelyn de Arias DBE, known by the stage name Margot Fonteyn, was an English ballerina. She spent her entire career as a dancer with the Sadler's Wells Ballet Company, now known as the Ro
Fonteyn in the 1960s
Robert Helpmann and Margot Fonteyn, Façade (1936)
Fonteyn and Helpmann, The Sleeping Beauty, Sadler's Wells 1950 U.S. tour
At a rehearsal for The Ed Sullivan Show in 1953 (at the time known as Toast of the Town)
Robert Helpmann
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Sir Robert Murray Helpmann was an Australian ballet dancer, actor, choreographer, and director. After early work in Australia, he moved to Britain in 1932, where he joined the Vic-Wells Ballet under i
Margot Fonteyn
…Markova as prima ballerina of the company in 1935. The Vic-Wells choreographer, Sir Frederick Ashton, wrote numerous parts for Fonteyn and her partner, Robert Helpmann, with whom she danced from the 1930s to the 1940s. In 1946, the company, now renamed the Sadler's Wells Ballet, moved into the Royal Opera House at…
Helpmann and his parents in 1911
Helpmann and Margot Fonteyn in Frederick Ashton's Façade