"(...)The editor of Dance and Dancers , present on all three occasions, was keen to throw his magazine' lofty weight behind 'some of the most memorable performances in the history of the Royal Ballet. I would like to think also that they herald a new era in which the company reaches even greater heights of hospitality to the world's great dance stars. Nationalism is a fine thing but internationalism should be ballet's ultimate horizon.' Yet for ordinary Londoners, the thrill was the much personal one of beholding their beloved ballerina in he arms of this most ardent and tender of strangers. The New York Times would speak for them when it came to describe 'a confluence of dancers where the chemistry, the times and most of all, the artistry, all were right. To see Fonteyn was one thing. To see Nureyev was another thing. But to see Fonteyn and Nureyeve together, on the same stage, with their particular love and assurence, was almost undiscribably special.'"
MEREDITH DANEMA (Meredith Daneman, Margot Fonteyn - A Life, Viking, New York, 2004)
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