Music: Troubled Tartar

"When I am dancing with him," says Dame Margot Fonteyn, "and I look across the stage, I see not Nureyev but the character of the ballet. I don't see, as I do with others, a man I know and talk to every day. I see the ballet. He is how I would like to be, and he makes it easier for me to dance as I wish."

Margot Fonteyn, a little past her great ballerina days at 43, has found in Russian Dancer Rudolf Nureyev, 24, one of the most satisfactory partners of her career....

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