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Also Known As Lilian Alicia Marks
Born December 1, 1910 • London • England
Died December 2, 2004 (aged 94) • Bath • England

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Alicia Markova, 1954.
Alicia Markova as Juliet with Hugh Laing as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Ballet Theatre, 1944
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Dolin in Bluebeard, 1942
Sir Anton Dolin
British dancer
Pillar of Fire
Antony Tudor
American dancer
Glen Tetley
American dancer
Lincoln Kirstein
American dance patron, writer, and businessman
Eliot Feld
American dancer
Violette Verdy
Violette Verdy
French ballerina
Ida Rubinstein
Ida Rubinstein
Russian dancer
Joffrey, Robert; Arpino, Gerald
Robert Joffrey
American choreographer and director
Rosella Hightower
American ballerina
Matthew Bourne
British choreographer and dancer
Dame Marie Rambert
ballet producer, director, and teacher
Dame Ninette de Valois
Irish-born British dancer
Frederick Ashton (left) and Robert Helpmann rehearsing their roles as the Ugly Sisters in Cinderella, 1965.
Sir Frederick Ashton
British choreographer
John Field
British ballet dancer and director
Ross, Herbert
Herbert Ross
American dancer and film director
George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
Russian-American choreographer
Rudolf Nureyev performing in Flower Festival at Genzano.
Rudolf Nureyev
Soviet-born dancer
Mikhail Baryshnikov performing with the Bolshoi Ballet
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Russian-American dancer
Sir Robert Helpmann
Australian dancer
Bournonville, oil on canvas by Louis Aumont, 1828; in the Theatre Museum, Copenhagen
August Bournonville
Danish dancer