Alicia Markova
(Born 1910 in Finsbury Park, London)
Dame Markova was a great ballerina and along with Sir Anton Dolin was a founder of the English National Ballet.
Dance is the art of movement, by a person or group of people. There are many forms of popular dance like ballet, modern, tap, jazz etc. As an art form it is grouped as performance as is requires an audience.
(Born 1910 in Finsbury Park, London)
Dame Markova was a great ballerina and along with Sir Anton Dolin was a founder of the English National Ballet.
(Born 1904 in Slinfold, West Sussex)
Dolin founded numerous ballet companies and was a principal ballet dancer and choreographer. He studied with two notable ballet dancers, Bronislava Nijinska and Serafima Astafieva. He danced the lead in many classical ballets and was considered a leading partner in his time. He wrote a number of books on dance, including Ballet Go Round, Pas de Deux, the Art of Partnering, Alicia Markova, his own Autobiography and The Sleeping Ballerina. Which was the story of the prima ballerina Olga Spessivtzeva.