As Aurora, Margot Fonteyn descended straight into this young girl's heart!
Carla FracciPointe magazine, 2021
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I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.
Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.
Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.
Emotionally, technically, physically – in every way. They were just meant to meet on this earth and dance together.
She was an angel and she danced like one.
Everything Fred did, I did backwards.
At the end of Swan Lake, when she left the stage in her great white tutu I would have followed her to the end of the world.
Rudolf Nureyevnureyev.org
If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando.