- Alicia Markova Most people reading this will never have seen Markova dance. A few older ones, like me, will remember her towards the end of her career, drifting apparently weightlessly through Les Sylphides; or you may know her only as the elegant figure still to be seen occasionally in the audience or on some panel of ballet celebrities. It is easy to forget that she has had one of the most ...www.ballet.co.uk/old/legend_js_alicia_markova.htm