Margot Fonteyn & Ivan Nagy in Skibine's Romeo and Juliet, 1976

Margot Fonteyn and Ivan Nagy are dancing the balcony scene from George Skibine's ballet 'Romeo and Juliet', which uses music from Berlioz's choral symphony 'Roméo et Juliette'. The extract was part of a gala in 1976, when Fonteyn was 57.

George Skibine's first choreographic work was Tragedy in Verona, an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet for the Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas in 1950 using Tchaikovsky's 'Overture-Fantasy' of the same name. Skibine returned to the story, again for de Cuevas, in 1955 with his wife, Marjorie Tallchief, as Juliet and Skibine himself as Romeo. The first performances were given in the open air at the Cour Carrée at the Louvre.

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