Margot Fonteyn

Former prima ballerina Darcey Bussell looks at the life and career of Margot Fonteyn.

Margot Fonteyn ranks prominent among the most venerated ballerinas of the 20th century. This programme brings her to life thanks to exceptional archive material, in which she appears with Michael Somes in the three great Tchaikovsky ballets.

This film is a biographical look at the career of the acclaimed Margot Fonteyn.

Biography of Dame Margot Fonteyn.

A documentary about dancer Heinz Bosl who died in 1975 - aged 28.

Documentary about the dancer Rudolf Nureyev.

Swan Lake - The Royal Ballet (1963) (Fonteyn-Nureyev)

Perhaps the most popular ballet video ever released, this version of Tchaikovsky's beloved work stars one of the most famous classical dance partnerships of all time, Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn. Nureyev choreographed this production for the Vienna State Opera Ballet. Two icons of 20th-century dance in magnificent form. Ballet authority John Lanchbery, former music director of the Sadler's Wells and Royal Ballet companies, as well as of American Ballet Theatre and Australian Ballet, conducts the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's enchanting score.

Classic ballet by Kenneth MacMillan to the music of Prokofiev.

Documentary about the Royal Ballet. Includes selections from "Les Sylphides" and "The Sleeping Beauty" with Rudolf Nureyev and Dame Margot Fonteyn

Filmed on the stage of London's Covent Garden. Includes extracts from Swan lake, Ondine & The Firebird.