The Magic of Dance

Description

A fine hardback book by Margot Fonteyn. 1980. Published by the BBC. With dust cover in very good condition and many colour photographs throughout. 326 pages.

Many colour and black and white photographs, paintings and drawings were all chosen under Dame Margot’s supervision, and some come from her private collection.

Tracing the history of dance Dame Margot takes us back to the Versailles of Louis XIV and Russia in the nineteenth century, and forward to the success of Isadora Duncan, Pavolva, Nijinsky and Nureyev. Taking her examples from wherever dance has flourished, she reveals patterns and meanings in the past which can explain how ballet may develop in the future.

This book arises out of the BBC 2 six-part series of the same title.