Dame Alicia Markova. (84-year-old Russian former ballet dancer)(Interview)

Dance Magazine | September 1, 1995| | Copyright

BOSTON--"It's not just about me, but all the things I've been involved in," says Dame Alicia Markova, talking about the contents of her papers, which she plans to deposit in the Special Collections department of Boston University's library. "There are so many things--it's been such a long time."

"All the things" to which Markova refers include many of the milestones of twentieth-century ballet, beginning in 1925, when fourteen-year-old Lillian Alicia Marks was plucked from the classes of her teacher, Serafina Astafieva, by Serge Diaghilev. Invited to join the ...

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