Markova - Alicia 02

Signed card - (1910 - 2004) English ballerina, choreographer, director and teacher. Markova was the first British dancer to become the principal dancer of a ballet company and one of only two British dancers to be recognised as a Prima Ballerina Assoluta, considered one of the greatest classical ballet dancers of the 20th century.

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.