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Margot Fonteyn
Dame Margot Fonteyn de Arias, DBE (18 May 191921 February 1991), was an English ballerina.〔Obituary ''Variety'', 25 February 1991.〕 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 ''Prima Ballerina Assoluta'' of the company by Queen Elizabeth II.
==Early life==
Fonteyn was born Margaret Evelyn Hookham on 18 May 1919 in Reigate, Surrey to a British father and a half-Irish half-Brazilian mother. Her mother's father was Brazilian industrialist Antonio Fontes. Very early in her career Margaret transformed "Fontes" into "Fonteyn" (a surname her brother also adopted) and Margaret into Margot. Among her father's family were people in literature and music, but he was an engineer.〔Fonteyn, Margot. ''Autobiography'' (New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1976), pp. 3–4, 50..〕
At four years of age her mother signed her up for ballet classes with her older brother. At age eight, Margot made the long journey to China with her mother and father, who had taken employment with a tobacco company there; her brother Felix remained at his school. For six years Margot lived in TianJin, then Shanghai, where she studied ballet with Russian émigré teacher George Goncharov. Her mother brought her back to London when she was 14, to pursue a ballet career. Continuing to work in Shanghai, her father was interned during World War II by the invading Japanese.〔''Autobiography'' (1976), pp. 14, 17–18, 22–32, 84, 30–31.〕
In 1933 she joined the Vic-Wells Ballet School, the predecessor of today's Royal Ballet School, training under the direction of Ninette de Valois and such teachers as Olga Preobrajenska and Mathilde Kschessinska (). After starting with the Vic-Wells Ballet, she rose quickly through the ranks of the company. By 1939, Fonteyn had performed principal roles in ''Giselle'', ''Swan Lake'' and ''The Sleeping Beauty'' and was appointed ''Prima Ballerina''. She was most noted in the ballets of Sir Frederick Ashton, including ''Ondine'', ''Daphnis and Chloe'', and ''Sylvia''. She was especially renowned for her portrayal of Aurora in Tchaikovsky's ''The Sleeping Beauty''. (Televised versions of ''Sleeping Beauty'' and Ashton's version of ''Cinderella'' are now available on DVD). Fonteyn also worked with choreographer Roland Petit and, later in life, Martha Graham. In 1949 when the Royal Ballet toured the United States, Fonteyn instantly became a celebrity for her performances.〔http://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/22/obituaries/margot-fonteyn-dead-at-71-ballerina-redefined-her-art.html〕
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