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Alicia Markova

British ballerina, choreographer, director and teacher of classical ballet (1910-2004)

Born 1910 · LondonDied 2004United Kingdom
Alicia Markova
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Alicia Markova was a British choreographer, ballet dancer and dancer, born in 1910 in London, who died in 2004.

Biography

Dame Alicia Markova DBE (1 December 1910 – 2 December 2004) 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. 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.

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