Alicia Markova, English ballerina and choreographer (born 1910)

Alicia Markova

British ballerina (1910–2004)

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…