Margot Fonteyn: Autobiography by Margot Fonteyn

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Her book is herself. It is, of course, about dancing. About loving to dance as a small child in Shanghai. About ballet classes and ballet teachers, about practice and rehearsal. Ab out making her debut--as a Snowflake, at fifteen--with the emerging Sadler's Wells Company, under the demanding rule of the brilliant and volatile Ninette de Valois. About her almost magical early success (at seventeen dancing Giselle; at eighteen, Swan Lake; at nineteen, Sleeping Beauty) and the effects on a young girl of sudden stardom. About the hard work of overcoming her limitations ('a face like a pudding,' she says) and her weaknesses.... This 1975 W.H. Allen / Virgin Books Hardback is in good condition. Dj. ISBN: 9780491018647 SKU: 1435689 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book. Show more