Alicia Markova

(1910-2004)

British ballerina, choreographer, director and teacher of classical ballet

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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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Born	Lilian Alice Marks 1 December 1910 London, England. UK
Died	2 December 2004 (aged 94) Bath, Somerset, England, UK
Zodiac	Sagittarius
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