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 Posté le: Lun Fév 05, 2007 5:05 pm Sujet du message: Margot Fonteyn inconnue |
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Le Musée Churchill à Londres expose actuellement une série de lettres inédites rédigées par Margot Fonteyn, alors agée de 20 ans, quand la seconde Guerre Mondiale a éclaté.
Le Daily Telegraph publiee aujourd'hui un article pour présenter cette manifestation. On apprend, chose incroyable, qu'en mai 1940, à la veille de la grande offensive allemande, Margot Fonteyn et un groupe de danseurs du Royal Ballet ont été envoyés en Hollande par le British Council, dans le cadre d'échanges culturels entre les deux pays. Le retour s'est fait en catimini, la nuit, sur un bateau zigzaguant entre les mines...
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The dancers of Ninette de Valois's fledgling Vic-Wells ballet heard that hostilities had been declared while they were travelling on a train to performances in Leeds. The booking was cancelled; the company disbanded. But the choreographer Frederick Ashton and music director Constant Lambert successfully persuaded the government that dance would raise morale – and the young company embarked on years of touring.
It took them into great danger. They danced as bombs fell outside the theatres; and in 1940 Fonteyn and the rest of the company were sent into Holland on an ill-advised British Council goodwill venture just as the Germans invaded. They escaped by night, shut in the hold of a boat, dodging mines as they silently crossed the Channel.
But, on the plus side, despite the privations and the shortage of male dancers, dancing through the war was also the making of the company. They expanded both their repertoire and their audience on their endless trail to theatres and halls up and down the country; the ferocious schedule – with three performances on a Saturday by the end of the war – turned them into fit and versatile dancers, and performing to American troops set the scene for their post-war triumph in New York, part of the making of the modern international company. |
L'article du Daily Telegraph est ICI
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