Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Alicia Markova

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British dancer Alicia Markova.
Last updated on December 7, 2024.
Alicia Markova

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 dancers of the twentieth century. She was the first British dancer to become the principal dancer of a ballet company and, with Dame Margot Fonteyn, is one of only two English dancers to be recognised as a prima ballerina assoluta. Markova was a founder dancer of the Rambert Dance Company, The Royal Ballet and American Ballet Theatre, and was co-founder and director of the English National Ballet.

My dressing table was willed to me, with some of my furniture. — © Alicia Markova
My dressing table was willed to me, with some of my furniture.
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. but to move an audience in such a role, to hear in the applause that unmistakable note which breaks through good theatre manners and comes from the heart, is to feel that you have won through to life itself. Such pleasure does not vanish with the fall of the curtain, but becomes part of one's own life.
A ballerina's life can be glorious. But it does not get any easier. I don't think anyone must ever think about it getting easier.
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