Alicia Markova was very young when she joined the Ballet Russes and would later say that she had called Diaghilev " Sergypops " and he'd said he would take care of her like a daughter.

While in London Pavlova was influential in the development of British ballet, most notably inspiring the career of Alicia Markova.

It was very popular between the wars, with appearances by Gracie Fields, Sybil Thorndike, Ivor Novello, Markova and Noël Coward.

Fox also used her formidable persuasive powers on artists other than singers: she was able to bring Rudolph Nureyev to make his debut on an American opera stage at the Lyric ; Vera Zorina, Alicia Markova, Erik Bruhn and Maria Tallchief also danced at the Lyric, and George Balanchine created choreography for the Lyric.

The first principal dancers of the Vic-Wells ballet were Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin and the founder choreographer was Frederick Ashton, all three having been working with the Ballet Club of Marie Rambert.

Technically exacting as it is, the role of Albrecht is not beyond the capabilities of any competent premier danseur, and Erik Bruhn is infinitely more than that ; he is probably the most completely equipped male dancer of the day, with the flawlessly clean technique that comes only through a combination of enormous talent allied to correct day-by-day training from childhood … If his dancing was magnificent, and it was, his partnering of and playing to Markova were no less so.

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Dame Alicia Markova, DBE, ( 1 December 19102 December 2004 ) was an English ballerina and a choreographer, director and teacher of classical ballet.

Markova was born as Lilian Alicia Marks on 1 December 1910.

At the age of 13, Markova was observed in class by Diaghilev, who was visiting London in search of new talent for his ballet company.

Markova was interviewed about these years in the documentary Ballets Russes.

It was after seeing the Camargo Society performance of Giselle with Olga Spessivtseva and Dolin in 1932 that Markova first realized the possibilities of the then-neglected ballet.

Dolin was to be the company's first Artistic Director, with Markova as Prima Ballerina.

Another British ballerina, Alicia Markova, was also tutored by Royal Ballet school founder Ninette de Valois, and would go on to be a leading ballerina with the Ballets Russes, the first Prima Ballerina of the Royal Ballet, a founder ballerina with American Ballet Theatre, and co-founder of English National Ballet who now recognise her as the companies Prima Ballerina Assoluta.

He said of British prima ballerina assoluta, Alicia Markova, who sat for The Dying Swan, that she was his most stimulating sitter.

The school was later extended in 1990, with the opening of the Markova Theatre by HRH The Prince Edward.

For many years, the school's President was the renowned Prima Ballerina Assoluta, Dame Alicia Markova.

After Alicia Markova, who had been scheduled to dance the title role, became sick, Hightower was called in as her replacement, and learned the part she had never danced before in some five hours of rehearsal with dancer / choreographer Anton Dolin.

From August 27 to September 1, along with Empress Hall, Earl's Court, Harringay Arena was the venue for a series of five gala performances by Alicia Markova, Anton Dolin and the Ballet Rambert.

* The Making of Modern Social Psychology: The Hidden Story of How an International Social Science was Created ( with Ivana Markova ).

It has also been awarded as an honorary degree to musical artists who were not composers, including the ballet dancers Dame Alicia Markova and Dame Beryl Grey, as well as female royalty regardless of their experience in music.

Some of the most accomplished dancers to perform this role include Carlotta Grisi ( for whom Théophile Gautier created the role ), Anna Pavlova, Tamara Karsavina, Olga Spessivtseva, Galina Ulanova, Alicia Markova, Eva Evdokimova, as well as Alicia Alonso, Chan Hon Goh, Beryl Goldwyn, Karen Kain, Margot Fonteyn, Natalia Makarova, Sylvie Guillem, Gelsey Kirkland, Irina Kolpakova, Ekaterina Maximova, Natalia Bessmertnova, Carla Fracci, Margaret Barbieri, Altynai Asylmuratova, Alessandra Ferri, Viviana Durante, Diana Vishneva, Svetlana Zakharova, Alina Cojocaru, Nina Ananiashvili, Natalia Osipova, Maria Kochetkova, Galina Mezentseva and Polina Semionova.

Markova appeared in ballets around the world, but is remembered mostly for her Giselle, as well as for The Dying Swan and Les Sylphides.

Prior to the thanksgiving for her life, Dame Alicia Markova had a Funeral Service at Bath's Haycombe Crematorium.

They all won the Prix de la Meilleure Interpretation in Brussels, Belgium for playing Walterina Markova, a transvestite in the movie Markova: Comfort Gay.

Whilst the Markova Theatre will be mainly used for Music and Drama performances.

In the 1920s and 1930s it housed the studio of renowned dance teacher Serafina Astafieva, who trained several of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes dancers and who taught prima ballerinas Alicia Markova and Margot Fonteyn.

Markova began to dance on medical advice to strengthen her weak limbs.

Dolin wrote several books, including the autobiography Ballet Go Round ( 1938 ) and Alicia Markova: Her Life and Art ( 1953 ).

* 1910 – Alicia Markova, English ballerina ( d. 2004 )

* December 1 – Alicia Markova, English ballerina ( d. 2004 )

* December 2 – Alicia Markova, English ballerina ( b. 1910 )

* English National Ballet-Dame Alicia Markova, Ballet. org

The turning point in Bruhn's international career came on May 1, 1955 with his début in the role of Albrecht in Giselle partnering Dame Alicia Markova, nearly twenty years his senior, in a matinée with Ballet Theatre in New York after only three days of rehearsal.

There he danced with Alicia Markova, with whom he went on to found the Markova-Dolin Ballet and the London Festival Ballet.

Following the death of Diaghilev in 1929, Markova returned to England, where she became the founder Principal Ballerina of The Ballet Club, a company founded by Dame Marie Rambert.

In 1933, de Valois appointed Markova as the first Prima Ballerina of the company, which is now the internationally renowned Royal Ballet.

Later in 1938 Markova joined the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, touring the world as the company's star ballerina.

In 1950, Markova and Dolin became the co-founders of the Festival Ballet, a company formed to celebrate the imminent Festival of Britain and backed by the Polish businessman Julian Brunsweg.

* Bio of Markova at Ballet. co. uk

Among her pupils were two prima ballerinas assolute, Dame Alicia Markova ( the first British dancer to hold the rank of Prima Ballerina ) and Dame Margot Fonteyn, and the future founder of Cambridge Ballet Workshop, Mari Bicknell.