Assoluta_Test_1

Assoluta
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ALICIA MARKOVA
Third Awarded
1910 - 2004
London, England
Dame Alicia Markova 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. She
was also a co-founder and director of
the English National Ballet.
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Mathilde Kschessinskaya
costumed for the title role
in Petipa , s La Camargo. St.
Petersburg, c. 1902
Mathilde Kschessinskaya
costumed for the title role
in Petipa , s La Camargo. St.
Petersburg, c. 1902