Word: fonteyn
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...tall, slim, sandy-haired man in street clothes sat on a desk in the wings of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House and watched the Sadler's Wells Ballet performance of Apparitions. From time to time, when she wasn't on stage, prima ballerina Margot Fonteyn came over to talk to him. TIME's Chandler Thomas, having sat through five performances of different ballets out front, wanted to see how ballet looked from backstage. He was getting ready for this week's cover story on Miss Fonteyn...
...perfection, and had witnessed the first successful attempt in years to return elegance and the classical spirit to the Western ballet. Both had been brought to the U.S. by England's Sadler's Wells Ballet. With its gifts, Sadler's Wells had also brought Margot Fonteyn, its prima ballerina, a dancer fit to be ranked with the alltime greats...
Night after night the Met was packed to the fire-limit (for an alltime record ballet box-office gross of $256,000). In four weeks, Margot Fonteyn and Sadler's Wells had restored as much glitter to Britain's tarnished tiara as any mission the English had sent abroad since the war. In London, cartoonists put Prime Minister Clement Attlee, Ernie Bevin and Sir Stafford Cripps* into tutus, hinted that they might do well to make their next visit to the U.S. on tiptoe...
...Sleeping Beauty. There was one Russian dancer: Violetta Elvin, but she is married to a Briton who brought her out of Moscow after World War II. The two stars with the brightest shine were born in Surrey and Fifeshire: dark-haired Margot Fonteyn (TIME, April 15, 1946) and red-haired Moira (The Red Shoes) Shearer. The leading male dancer, Robert Helpmann, is somewhat of a foreigner-from Australia. Chief Choreographer Frederick (Cinderella, Facade) Ashton was born in Ecuador of British parents. Some of the ballets had unmistakably British subjects, among them The Rake's Progress (De Valois) and Hamlet...
...hour-long Tchaikovsky-Petipa ballet The Sleeping Beauty. Few could say they had ever seen a more lavish spectacle and dancing grace on a U.S. ballet stage. It took Conductor Constant Lambert a full five minutes to get the music in motion again after the thunderous ovation for Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann's third-act pas de deux...