Archives for July 29, 2015

Dame Margot Fonteyn and Rudolph Nureyev dance the “Black Swan” pas de deux from Swan Lake, choreographed by Marius Petipa and set to the music of Tchaikovsky. This performance, introduced by Fred Astaire, was originally telecast on The Hollywood Palace on October 2, 1965:

(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday and Wednesday.)

“I don’t care much about pretty words any more. You live with words a long time. Then all at once you are old, and there are the things and the words don’t matter any more.”

Robert Penn Warren, All the King’s Men