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The Magic of Dance

Nov 5, 1979 S1 E5

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Dame Margot Fonteyn acts as tour guide to the British ballet.

Episode 5The Magnificent beginning

The first real ballet school was founded by King Louis XIV of France in 1669. From Louis's great palace at Versailles, Margot Fonteyn tells the story of Louis's own love of dancing and how it led from the courtly dances of 17th-century France to the worldwide phenomenon of ballet that we know today. At Drottningholm in Sweden, she visits the Court Theatre and sees ballet performed in the original settings and under the original conditions.

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