Ballet legend Peter Wright: 'Margot Fonteyn was cold as ice. Rudi Nureyev was a bit of a pain'
At 98, the choreographer has lost none of his love for dance " or his scathing wit. As his classic Nutcracker is performed again, he talks about grit, the 'rubbish' classics and directing a historic duo Instead of the circus, Peter Wright ran away to join the ballet. At 16, he was a student at Bedales boarding school in Hampshire, but was desperate to train to be a dancer, something his disapproving father had no tru…