"There, Margot provided backup support with her sewing kit"

Thank you for sharing this incredible documentary of an incredible woman.

Wonderful, enjoyed every moment; what a spectacular woman, Dame Margot ...

Can someone please tell me music from 2.10 which ballet is ?

What a beautiful, talented and charming lady.

That was amazing technique and so fluid and effort lezz..

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Fabulous book…. He did not love her back!

She was very much in love with Misha….it got in the way of her dancing later on…a great book,really great book…” Dancing On My Grave”

Very nice! But for me, no one will ever top Gelsey’s speed, agility, lightness, and grace.

Why was it never mentioned?! So we could all keep doing it!!

Is this where they celebrate the wedding and harvest?

She did everything to pease them and she still was treated badly come on she was trying everything not to please herself it was to please them

Sending hugs and love 💕💕

I love her no matter what she is honest she told the truth and you made her feel bad because she told the truth still love her xxx

Enjoy life you as I said are was still are amazing

You are amazing and so talented so talented ok 💕Sydney Australia

You my friend are not only amazing. But do not need to change and never did any thing about you ever or get buck teeth or silicon lips Hello you are so beautiful you do not need and never did need to change yourself to look like anybody else you are and still are a million times more beautiful than who you thought you needed to look like 🥲ok

Funny, but I never got into drugs as a ballerina ( full scholarship at SAB & professional in corpse of Ballet at 16) unless you consider chocolate & the coke I would partake was cola! Almost all the other dancers would smoke cigarettes & drank coffee all day when not dancing! Me, ate apples, drank sodas, & nibbled on dark cocoa chocolate instead. I danced professionally almost 30 years! P.s. I dance with Patrick ( Wally) Bissell & Joe Duell!

As a young girl I will never forget watching Margot & Rodolf perform. The Greatest of all time❤🙏

This is how it's done.

Gelsey Kirkland is responsible for every drug she put into her body. She is responsible for every plastic surgery session she signed up for. Drugs and plastic surgery were around then, and they are around now. Each dancer is responsible for his or her own actions. It's a sign of weakness to blame anyone else. Imagine Marianella Nunes or Margot Fonteyn whining about their own choices. No, those two ballerinas are champions in every sense of the word.

I am so grateful to see this again. Margot Fonteyn! 🙏❤️🌍🌏🌎🌿🕊🎵🎶🎵💫⭐️💫🌍

❤ pure perfection. Gelsey, they don’t come like you anymore, your artistry is unique.

La mejor interpretación de Nykiya y su entrada. Una diosa natalia Makarova

When I was 9 years old I traveled with a dance company. I had to change costumes in the women's room with the female dancers because my mom had to dress me and couldn't be in the men's room. The women would do coke and I had no idea because I was just a kid, but as an adult I realized what it was they were sniffing. It's sad, the things they had to do to feel confident in performing.

She wasn't great at the men she picked was she ??? Neither were oil paintings and not nearly good enough for her chancers and villains !what a pity she hadn't met nureyev earlier that's so sad !! I think he adored her and she was used by the other two idiots she was involved with !

Una vida intensa y llena de gran talento y disciplina.

Gracias por este maravilloso documental.

My heart was stolen a long time ago by Martine van Hamel, so I can't say Gelsey is better, but many of her qualities are those I admire in these earlier clips: the way she floats through his hands, the way she's always moving even when she's still, the way she fills all the music, the way she *lives* the music. Just... Thanks for posting!

No one can match her phrasing, impeccable pointe work, focus, movement in space, luminosity, line, intention of the port de bras and epaulement, sheer musicality and sublime femininity. She is a genius, period. And this was from FIFTY YEARS AGO!! Watch and learn, aspiring artists.

Margot Fonteyn bravely lived in constant denial of reality and died in screaming agony. Her strong body was totally destroyed. Tito bedded every woman who moved, even, it was rumoured, on the honeymoon. This documentary did not much mention Margot's own rich sexual life, which had cost her two abortions and a subsequent sterilisation. Rudi Nureyev truly adored her and in spite of being wildly gay, wanted to marry her, but she chose self-denying martydom out of long habit. Ballet students always touch the hand of her bronze statue for luck. It is quite worn down with love.

Bravo what a Beautiful dancer so talented xxx👌🌹

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What an interesting account of Margo Fonteyns life, So sad that her personal life was so unsettled, The partnership with Nureyev was something magical, I had the pleasure of seeing them both dance at Covent Garden and have always remembered it

The sound ‘s like he’s scuba diving off the coast of Honolulu 😩

My sister recommended "Dancing on my Grave" book to me, I read it three times. Then the movie came out... I hope you came out of this alive. What an experience.

We are so fortunate that we have so much footage of these brilliant dancers. ❤

beautiful!!!

I'm a sports fan but i don't know anything about ballet or the difficulty of doing what she does. But when I see her dance, it's amazing. She looks so sad here, but her character seems so strong. I hope she has found peace in her life. I am going to order her book right now.

She was just wonderfull and fantastique to see magnifique artiste.never to forget.Edward Arckless ex Royal Oper Ballet Covent Garden London and conservatoire de Ville de Paris France

The attempt at making the recording sound like a gramophone wrecked it for me. Sorry, I couldn’t listen to the story of my childhood idol because the sound hurt my ears 😢 The story of Dame Margot sells itself!

Bravo,👏👏👏👏👏

la prima volta che, da ragazzino, varcai la soglia del San carlo, il dicembre 1988 vidi questo balletto danzato da Peter Schaufuss e Elizabeth Terabust

American ballet stage …. Another amercan lie….and of course the blame is on a …Russian….C’ mon ….

She suffered in silence. She dies penniless and couldn't even pay for her own cancer treatment. Makes me sad...

I admire her strength and honesty. Her book, Dancing on My Grave, is incredible.

Só tem um detalhe: ela não se importou com a dor de Nureyev. Tudo pelo cafajeste do marido.

i just finished reading Colum McCann's "Dancer" about Nureyev. Came here to learn more about Margot and wow- what a heartbreaking but hauntingly beautiful life.

She has the straightest back of any dancer I have ever seen