Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann - Fish Dives from ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ (1936)

It’s lovely hearing Fonteyn talking about what she learned from Helpmann about stagecraft - about how she to get the audience’s attention when there was someone with great charisma as a partner.

[@Balletboy305]

wow! such rare footage!!! I LOVE it, such exciting ballet!!! the trust!!!

[@Balletboy305]

I LOVEEEEEEEE this footage!!! more from the 30's please

[@fido652]

A miracle.

[@xavierparres7840]

toute mon admiration pour dama margot fonteyn prestigieuse artiste celebre avec le genial danseur etoile rudolf nureev comme couple extraordinaire

[@nancydionisi9346]

What a beautiful video!, I love and admire Margot very much, thank you John!

[@JohnRaymondHall]

my pleasure Nancy 😀

[@user-ey9ly4mn6d]

Merci🎉

[@JohnRaymondHall]

mon plaisir :)

[@Dane_Youssef]

I always thought "The Fish Dive" was the most impressive move in ballet. More than the Prima Ballerina doing a multiple pirouette en Pointe.
Most people talk about how "Rudi and Margot" had a real fire-and-ice quality. There were no two dancers who could be more dissimilar. It's true. The two were exact opposites. And they had the most celebrated partnership in ballet history. But if there was a man in ballet who was like Fonteyn, someone who was her match--it was probably him, the man who by her own admission was her favorite partner... Sir "Bobby" Helpmann... He was a ballet dancer at a time when a man being a ballet dancer wasn't so appreciated... I always felt like he deserved the same sort of legacy that Margot got. Like George Balanchine, he may have been better at choreographing ballet than dancing it. And... he did choreograph it... That's why they were both knighted. There should be more to remember him.

[@JohnRaymondHall]

fish dives struck me that way too. and he was a ballet dancer when there were so few other men with much technique. but fellow dancers, early on like Fonteyn, said said his impact was through his acting and stage presence

[@rmp7400]

Great ultra vintage video, JH!!!🎉

[@JohnRaymondHall]

yes, wonderful to see her so early in her career :)

[@doloresfonteyn8537]

Ay Dios mío que maravilla, Fonteyn con a penas 18 años🫠🙏💓

[@JohnRaymondHall]

Sí, es maravilloso verla tan temprano en su carrera.

[@isabeldiezlangre9411]

Hacían buena pareja. Helpman era muy buen bailarin, por lo que he leido sobre él ya que en sus mejores tiempos, yo creo que no había nacido. He visto el video del ballet Don Quijote, con Nureyev y el ballet Australiano y su actuación como Quijote me encantó. Por cierto, el Ballet Australiano me pareció muy bueno; no sabía que tenía tanto nivel hasta que vi este video. Magnífico.

[@JohnRaymondHall]

sí, y siendo tan joven, Fonteyn aprendió mucho de Helpmann sobre la presencia escénica. y es extraordinario que Helpmann, al mismo tiempo que se filmaba este metraje, estuviera interpretando papeles protagónicos de Shakespeare en Stratford.

[@isabeldiezlangre9411]

​@@JohnRaymondHall No me extraña porque era muy buen actor además de buen bailarin. Los ingleses son buenísimos actores, yo creo que mejores que los americanos. Es una opinión personal.

[@JohnRaymondHall]

Sí, era actor y bailarín; la actuación fue una gran parte del impacto de sus actuaciones.@@isabeldiezlangre9411

[@ausbrum]

@@isabeldiezlangre9411 Los ingleses? He was Australian

[@isabeldiezlangre9411]

​@@ausbrumPerdón, pensé que era inglés al ser pareja de Margot y vivir en Londres. De todos modos un gran actor, buenísimo actor.