英语名人堂：芳婷-英语课

时间：2018-12-29 作者：英语课 分类：英语名人堂

英语课

自幼跟俄国侨民教师乔治·冈恰罗夫学习芭蕾舞。

1934年回英国后进入伦敦圣德勒·威尔士芭蕾舞学校，同年参加了舞剧《胡桃夹子》演出，担任伴舞演员，饰小雪花，受到重视。后进入圣德勒·威尔士芭蕾舞团。
1935年，剧团的主要演员阿莉西亚·玛尔科娃因故退出舞台，玛戈·芳婷代替马尔科娃扮演《天鹅湖》中的白天鹅奥杰塔，这次成功演出成了她艺术生命的一个转折点。
1939年她又成功主演了舞剧《吉赛尔》而成为英国的芭蕾明星。
1946年，芳婷在伦敦皇家歌剧剧院演出了舞剧《睡美人》，成功地扮演了剧中的阿芙罗拉公主，再次轰动英国舞坛，更确立了她在英国芭蕾界首席芭蕾演员的地位。她的舞姿轻盈,能将音乐与舞蹈融为一体,举手投足都富于表情。她对芭蕾艺术态度认真,不断地追求和探索,直到息影舞台。
1958年，巴拿马政府指控她参与丈夫推翻政府的阴谋，对她签发了逮捕令。后来她虽免遭厄运，但她丈夫却遭枪击而致残废。芳婷以惊人的毅力继续她的舞台演出外，更是以超人的精力照料丈夫，获得文化界的高度尊敬。
1979年阿什顿专为芳婷创作了舞剧《向芳婷致敬》。年届六旬的芳婷担任女主角。这是她四十五年芭蕾舞台生涯的最后告别演出。芳婷与英国芭蕾编导阿什顿的合作，一直被芭蕾界传为佳话。
1979年,访问中国,将北京舞蹈学院演出的《卖火柴的小女孩》编入她与英国BBC电视台合拍的自传片中。

Margot Fonteyn was born as Margaret Hookham in England in 1919. Many consider her to be the greatest English ballerina of all time. She received the title of Dame 1 when she was 35 from Britain’s Queen. Fonteyn had a sparkling career and encouraged artists of all kinds to share their ideas to find deeper meaning in their work.

The young Margaret signed up for ballet classes when she was very young. She joined Britain’s Royal Ballet while still a teenager. Her exceptional talent was clear to see and by 1939, she was the star of her ballet company. She wowed TV audiences with her role as Aurora 2 in Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty. Her breathtaking grace helped bring ballet to new audiences.

In 1949, she toured the United States and became an instant celebrity 3. Her status as a ballet great arrived at the time most of her peers thought she would retire. In 1961 she danced with the great Rudolf Nureyev. Their partnership 4 lasted until her retirement 5 in 1979 and is still the greatest the ballet world has witnessed. They became lifelong friends.

Fonteyn was, incredibly, 59 years old when she retired 6. She spent her final years living with her diplomat 7 husband in Panama. She summed up her life by saying: "The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative 8 and the second is disastrous 9." Fonteyn died of cancer in 1979.