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The Making of Markova: Diaghilev''s Baby Ballerina to Groundbreaking Icon

Hardback | English

By (author): Tina Sutton

In pre-World War I England, a frail Jewish girl - so shy she barely spoke a word until age six and so sickly she needed to be homeschooled - is diagnosed with flat feet, knock knees and weak legs. In short order, Lilian Alicia Marks would become a dance prodigy, the cherished baby ballerina of Sergei Diaghilev, and the youngest ever soloist at his famed Ballets Russes. It was there that George Balanchine choreographed his first ballet for her, Henri Matisse designed her costumes, and Igor Stravinsky taught her music - all when the re-christened Alicia Markova was just 14. But the timid British dancer would be forced to overcome poverty, jealousy, anti-Semitism, and prejudices against her unconventional looks to become the greatest classical ballerina of her generation - and one of the most celebrated, self-reliant, and adventurous. A true ambassador of ballet, Markova co-founded touring companies, traveled to the far corners of the world, and was the first ballerina to appear on television. Given unprecedented access to Dame Markova''s intimate journals and correspondence, Tina Sutton paints a full picture of the dancer''s astonishing life and times in 1920s Paris and Monte Carlo, 1930s London, and wartime in New York and Hollywood. Ballet lovers and readers everywhere will be fascinated by the story of one of the 20th century''s great artists. 60 photographs See more
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Product Details
  • Format: Hardback
  • Weight: 909g
  • Dimensions: 163 x 236mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Aug 2013
  • Publisher: Pegasus Books
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781605984568

About Tina Sutton

Tina Sutton is currently a fashion features and arts writer for The Boston Globe and has been a writerresearcher and journalist for over thirty years. She also researches and writes material for museum and art catalogs and the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center.

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