Re: Fonteyn Biography Recommendation?

While stranded on the hard shoulder of the information super highway
hackleton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 typed: 
> I have just read and re-read Julie Kavanagh's biogs of Ashton and her
> new one of Nureyev.  Despite being a ballet ignoramus, I love these
> great books.
> 
> If I wanted something as serious and human / humane about Margot
> Fonteyn, what of the many publications should I read?  I have heard of
> a Meredith Daneman biography --- is it good?
> 
> I am less interested in purely photographic records; the human side
> (and the tech side, despite my ignorance) of the dance.
> 
> Polite replies to this group welcomed!

I haven't read the Daneman biography; unlike you I'm more interested
in photos than words.  Of it, 

The New Yorker said:
"Daneman's biography is probably the closest examination that could
be made of the notoriously reticent English ballerina...Daneman tells
us the hard parts..."

and Publishers Weekly said:
"Both critically sophisticated and dramatically compelling, this is a
must-read for balletomanes as well as biography aficionados."

High praise indeed, so it might be worth a look.
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