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Margot Fonteyn
Dame Margaret Evelyn de AriasDBE (néeHookham; 18 May 1919 – 21 February 1991), known by the stage name Margot Fonteyn, was an English ballerina.[1][2] She is widely regarded as one of the greatest classical balletdancers of all time.
Margot fonteyns biography
She spent her entire career as a dancer with the Royal Ballet, eventually being appointed Prima Ballerina Assoluta of the company by QueenElizabeth II. This is an honour rarely given to a dancer. The highest rank in the Royal Ballet today is Principal dancer.
Fonteyn's appointment as a Dame commander of the British Empire is the female equivalent to a knighthood.
Fonteyn danced until 1979, when she was nearly 60.
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This is unusual for any dancer, male or female. Her career was expected to end round about 1960, but it was reborn by a new partnership with a Russian dancer who had escaped from the Soviet Union. He was Rudolph Nureyev, one of the three greatest male ballet dancers of the twe