Michael Somes

Michael George Somes CBE (28 September 1917 – 18 November 1994), was an English ballet dancer.

He was a principal dancer of The Royal Ballet, London, and the frequent partner of Margot Fonteyn.

In 1938, he and Fonteyn created the principal rôles in the Frederick Ashton/Constant Lambert ballet Horoscope, after which he was described as "potentially the finest British male dancer of the half century".

From then on, Somes appeared in character rôles, most notably as Lord Capulet in Romeo and Juliet.

Dixon died in a London hospital on May 28, 1959, aged 25, from a cerebral abscess and meningitis,[4] although her obituary in The Stage states that her death was from the effects of a car accident two years previously.