DANCER

Alicia Markova

1910 - 2004

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Dame Alicia Markova DBE (1 December 1910 – 2 December 2004) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alicia Markova has received more than 194,846 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Alicia Markova is the 71st most popular dancer (down from 61st in 2019), the 3,075th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,792nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular British Dancer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 190k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DANCERS

Among dancers, Alicia Markova ranks 71 out of 116. Before her are Tamara Khanum, Yvette Chauviré, Lydia Lopokova, Vera Karalli, Olga Preobrajenska, and Mrinalini Sarabhai. After her are Olga Spessivtseva, Vakhtang Chabukiani, Hans van Manen, Birgit Cullberg, Yury Grigorovich, and Sylvie Guillem.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Alicia Markova ranks 229. Before her are Delfín Benítez Cáceres, Katalin Karády, Willy Ronis, Paul Sweezy, Karl Zischek, and Tefta Tashko-Koço. After her are Larysa Hienijuš, Mary Wickes, Fernando de Santiago, Karl Hugo Strunz, Vakhtang Chabukiani, and Petar Trifunović. Among people deceased in 2004, Alicia Markova ranks 188. Before her are Frank Thomas, Alan Brown, Delfín Benítez Cáceres, José Omar Pastoriza, Paul Sweezy, and Klara Rumyanova. After her are Balamani Amma, Philip Arthur Fisher, Claude Nougaro, Oscar Heisserer, Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria, and Karel Kachyňa.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alicia Markova ranks 3,075 out of 8,785. Before her are Anne Seymour Damer (1748), John Bodkin Adams (1899), Roger Rees (1944), Pamela Colman Smith (1878), Rhona Mitra (1976), and Sam Smith (1992). After her are Anna Russell (1807), John Stott (1921), Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet (1788), Ernest Renshaw (1861), Peter Sinfield (1943), and Ian Stuart Donaldson (1957).

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Among DANCERS In United Kingdom

Among dancers born in United Kingdom, Alicia Markova ranks 3. Before her are Margot Fonteyn (1919), and Lindsay Kemp (1938). After her are Kenneth MacMillan (1929), Antony Tudor (1908), and Darcey Bussell (1969).

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