NUTCRACKER Act II Grand Pas De Deux - Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes

Here is a 1958 TV broadcast of the Act II Pas De Deux from THE NUTCRACKER danced by the incomparable Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes. This was a few years before Nureyev gave her a whole new career, and she is either 39 or 40 in this tape. She was born in 1919. The tempo is correct and the one-handed pirouettes are exactly how Balanchine wanted them. This choreography is probably the closest to the original Petipa/Ivanov.