Carried to fame on a wave of wartime patriotism, Margot’s sense of duty rather than ambition propelled her forward. I suspect only a poet would be equal to it. Margot Fonteyn born plain Peggy Hookham was dreamed into existence by the architects of British ballet: Ninette de Valois, Frederick Ashton and Constant Lambert.
Though Daneman doggedly hauls aspects of them into view and pontificates upon them, her sensibilities, thinking, and writing style are insufficiently sophisticated for the task of making Fonteyn live on paper. The artistry, however, and even the personality as a whole never get illuminated. This includes an exhaustive list of her lovers and testaments to her sexual avidity, piquantly at odds with the sublime purity she embodied onstage. True to current taste, Daneman aims for a portrait of the artist as a flesh-and-blood woman. IMDbProStarmeterSee rank Add photos, demo reelsAdd to list View contact info at IMDbPro More at IMDbPro Contact info Agent info Known for A Chance to Sit Down 6.5 TV Series Writer 1981 4 eps Margot 6. A complete portrait of the celebrated British ballerinas life traces her childhood in suburban England. Accordingly, the dancer and novelist Meredith Daneman allows herself nearly 600 pages to tackle the subject of Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991), that beloved icon of classical dancing, the epitome of the exquisitely refined English style, and-hand in hand with Frederick Ashton, for whom she served as muse-a linchpin in the development of British ballet. Meredith Daneman is known for A Chance to Sit Down (1981)and Margot (2009). The fashion in biography today calls for exorbitant length and the revelation-in the interests of truth, shock value, or both-of what used to be called a person’s private life. Fonteyn: Avid flesh-and-blood woman photo: Penguin Putnam Inc.
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