Alicia Markova
British ballerina, choreographer, director and teacher of classical ballet (1910-2004) · United Kingdom · On the map · Directors · Died at 94
Dame Alicia Markova DBE was a British ballerina and a choreographer, director and teacher of classical ballet. Most noted for her career with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and touring internationally, she was widely considered to be one of the greatest classical ballet dancers of the twentieth century.
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OmnibusSeries1953
Les SylphidesFilm1950
Your Show of ShowsSeries1945
A Song for Miss JulieFilm, Ballet Dancer1910Born1 December 1910People around Alicia
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Portrait of Markova in the Bluebird Variation of The Sleeping Beauty, commissioned from Igor Stravinsky for the American Ballet Theatre (1941)
Markova in "The Dying Swan", 1948
Pointe shoe belonging to Markova, currently housed at The Shoe Room in Toronto.
2025 English Heritage blue plaque Dame ALICIA MARKOVA (LILIAN ALICIA MARKS) 1910−2004 Prima Ballerina lived here as a child
Dame Alicia Markova Allan WarrenAwards
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She was the first British dancer to become the principal dancer of a ballet company and, with Dame Margot Fonteyn, is one of only two English dancers to be recognised as a prima ballerina assoluta. Markova was a founder dancer of the Rambert Dance Company, The Royal Ballet and American Ballet Theatre, and was co-founder and director of the English National Ballet.
