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Dame Alicia Markova Dame Alicia Markova
Dame Alicia Markova , 1910-2004, English ballerina. Her original name was Lilian Alicia Marks. Markova joined Diaghilev 's Ballet Russe in 1924 and, in 1931, the Vic-Wells Ballet (now the Royal Ballet ), becoming its first prima ballerina in 1933. In 1935 she formed a company with Anton Dolin .... Read more
Royal Ballet Royal Ballet
Royal Ballet the principal British ballet company, based at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden , London. It is noted for lavish dramatic productions, a superbly disciplined corps de ballet, and brilliant performances from its principals. Granted a royal charter in 1956, the company was formed... Read more
Galina Ulanova Galina Ulanova
Galina Ulanova , 1910-98, Russian ballerina, b. St. Petersburg. Ulanova made her debut at the Kirov Ballet (1928), where she danced until 1944. That year she became prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, with which she first appeared in 1935, and she received numerous awards from the Soviet... Read more
Dame Margot Fonteyn Dame Margot Fonteyn
Dame Margot Fonteyn , 1919-91, English ballerina. Fonteyn was for many years prima ballerina assoluta of the Royal Ballet . Her original name was Margaret Hookham. In 1934 she joined the Sadler's Wells Ballet School, and in the same year she made her debut as a soloist. She became prima ballerina... Read more
Virginia Johnson Virginia Johnson
Virginia Johnson 1950– Dancer and choreographer At a Glance… Joined Revolutionary Troupe Became Troupe’s Leading Ballerina Danced Around the World Sources Virginia Johnson is the Dance Theatre of Harlem’s emotive prima ballerina. She has been with this historic and major... Read more
Alicia Alonso Alicia Alonso
Alicia Alonso Overcoming near blindness and numerous other obstacles that would have crippled lesser people, Cuban dancer Alicia Alonso (born 1921) became one of the greatest ballerinas in history and has starred in the most famous ballets all over the world. She later founded and directed the... Read more
Bolshoi Ballet Bolshoi Ballet
Bolshoi Ballet , one of the principal ballet companies of Russia; part of the Bolshoi Theater, which also includes Russia's premier opera company. The Bolshoi Ballet began as a dancing school for the Moscow Orphanage in 1773. The Bolshoi Theatre, which opened permanently in 1856, in its early... Read more
Maria Tallchief Maria Tallchief
M ARIAT ALLCHIEF Born: January 24, 1925 Fairfax, Oklahoma Native American dancer and choreographer Maria Tallchief is a world-renowned ballerina and one of the premiere (first-ranking) American ballerinas of all time. She was the first American... Read more
Sir Frederick Ashton Sir Frederick Ashton
Sir Frederick Ashton 1904-88, British choreographer and dancer, b. Guayaquil, Ecuador. He grew up in Peru and was drawn to dance after seeing (1917) a performance by Anna Pavlova there. Traveling to London in the early 1920s, he studied dance with Léonide Massine and Marie Rambert ,... Read more
Anna Matveyevna Pavlova Anna Matveyevna Pavlova
Anna Matveyevna Pavlova , 1881-1931, Russian ballerina. In 1892 she entered the Imperial Ballet School, St. Petersburg. She made her debut in 1899 at the Maryinsky Theatre, but it was only after tours to Scandinavia (1907) and to Berlin and Vienna (1908) that she gained fame. In Paris, Pavlova... Read more

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