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Jordan Hogg, 28, died in Fonteyn Court, in the Hemlington area of Middlesbrough, in the early hours of Friday 28 February.

The Royal Ballet School in London is one of the world's most celebrated, and has produced a string of famous dancers including Dame Margot Fonteyn and Dame Darcey Bussell.

So, more than 20 years later, it tickled Bob that he now found himself a position to ask both Fonteyn and Balanchine how she had coped.

She watched the foremost dancers of the day at Covent Garden and other theaters, forming a particular devotion to Margot Fonteyn.

Robb writes about a similar situation in her memoir, in which she recalls her experience at the School of American Ballet and dips into the biographies of others, including Misty Copeland and Margot Fonteyn.