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...partner in this selection, Alicia Markova, is a lyrical performer. Although she chose a less exacting and less exciting variation, The Sugar Plum Fairy, her technique was flawless. To Les Sylphides, she brought more spirit and charm; Michel Fokine's choreography includes a series of tours en l'air which Markova handled beautifully. At one point, however, she tangled with Paula Lloyd who is a more angular, energetic dancer, and who is not particularly well suited to this genre of ballet...
...America" according to William B. Van Lennep '29, curator of the Theatre Collection. The collection spans the history of ballet from its origin in 1581 up to the present. Among the items included are books, prints, drawings, figurines, and a pair of ballet shoes belonging to ballerina Alicia Markova, one of the foremost of our time...
...solved the star problem by coaxing ageless Ballerina Alicia Markova (born Alice Marks) back into the fold to be guest star. It also commissioned Broadway-famed Choreographer Agnes de Mille to do a new number, Harvest According, and got its own ballet master, Edward Caton, to whip up another, Triptych. It was again scheduling an "American Composers Night," when Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Morton Gould and Virgil Thomson would conduct their own ballets...
Biggest news was Markova's return after six years away from the company and three away from Manhattan. Her best role is in a masterly old bit of nonsense, Giselle, which she still dances better than anybody else. She floats about the stage as a peasant girl in love with a disguised nobleman, goes mad convincingly, and rises from the dead with incredible grace. Perhaps her leaps are not very high any more, and she spends little time on the tips of her toes, but every motion is polished and her feet are almost as expressive as hands. When...
Moreover, the audiences were trooping in well for all performances; company regulars such as Alicia Alonso, Mary Ellen Moylan, Igor Youskevitch, John Kriza were drawing just as well as Markova. Midway in its three-week season, Ballet Theatre breathed easier, estimated that it would take in $150,000 (last year, $97,000), for its best season...