valerielawson

wonderful shot love the costume and the light

Beautiful I agree with das Auge

i love it

Except last name is mistyped in title ;)

wow - fantatic - wonderful, like it!! (add me as a contact if you want :)

Such a great ballerina Great picture

Beaming, adoring fans! ;) L to R: Helen Brecknell, Helen Thibou, Sonia Humphrey (1947-2011), Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991) and Michael Somes (1917-1994); Mascot Airport, May, 1957. [1] Don't miss reading "When Sonia met Margot" -- a brief article by Valerie Lawson that explains how these three 9-year-old girls came to meet Margot Fonteyn (and appeared on page one of The Sydney Morning Herald) -- and how this chance meeting led to another front page Herald story, five years later, showing Sonia and Fonteyn looking at the previous photo together. This is a gem of a footnote that totally brings this photo to life!

Thanks, Pixel Wrangler

I truly hope it's not ill-mannered to share a photo from another's photostream here – it's just that, like the nine-year-olds pictured above, I'm a beaming admirer!

Yesterday Dame Margot Fonteyn was honored with a famous Blue Plaque at the site of the London flat she lived in.

– Royal Opera House Covent Garden

"Darcey Bussell unveiling of the blue plaque for Dame Margot Fonteyn on 118 Long Acre, City of London on 7 June 2016."
Photograph © English Heritage, 2016

Identifications (shown above in notes) by Valerie Lawson in Behind Ballet. In 2010, Valerie Lawson was the Nancy Keesing Fellow at the State Library of New South Wales where she researched the ballet and dance collections.