Profile
Margot Fonteyn
United Kingdom
Female
Born
May 18, 1919
Hometown
Reigate
Died
Feb 21, 1991
Death Place
Panama City
Nationality
United Kingdom
Other Names
Hookham, Margaret
Dame Margot Fonteyn de Arias, DBE, was an English ballerina of the 20th century. She is widely regarded as one of the greatest classical ballet dancers of all time. She spent her entire career as a dancer with the Royal Ballet, eventually being appointed… Read More
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Ballet Prodigy Wows Wagga In Her Farewell Daily AdvertiserGoogle News - Aug 21, 2011
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1919
Birth
Fonteyn was born Margaret Evelyn Hookham and known as Peggy Hookham on 18 May 1919 in Reigate, Surrey,,United Kingdom to an English father and a half-Irish half-Brazilian mother; her mother's father was the industrialist Antonio Fontes of Brazil.
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TEENAGE
1933
14 Years Old
In 1933, she joined the Vic-Wells Ballet School, the predecessor of today's Royal Ballet School.
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TWENTIES
1939
20 Years Old
By 1939, Fonteyn had performed principal roles in Giselle, Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty and was appointed Prima Ballerina.
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THIRTIES
1949
30 Years Old
In 1949 when the Royal Ballet toured the United States, Fonteyn instantly became a celebrity for her performances.
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1955
36 Years Old
In 1955, Fonteyn married Dr. Roberto Arias, a Panamanian diplomat to London.
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FORTIES
1961
42 Years Old
Fonteyn began her greatest artistic partnership at a time when many (including the head of the Royal Ballet, Ninette de Valois) thought she was about to retire. In 1961 Rudolf Nureyev defected to the West, and on 21 February 1962, he and Fonteyn first performed together in Giselle.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1979
60 Years Old
They created an on-and-offstage partnership that lasted until her 1979 retirement, and were lifelong friends.
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1989
70 Years Old
After her retirement, she spent all her time in Panama, and was close to her husband and his children from an earlier marriage. Shortly before her husband's death, in 1989, Fonteyn was diagnosed with a cancer that proved fatal.
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