Ballet & Ballerinas Dance Posters & Prints “M...-N...-”
for performance, language & visual arts, music, social studies classrooms, home schoolers.

Alicia Markova, née Lilian Alicia Marks
b. 12-1-1910; London
d. 12-2-2004; Bath, England

Alicia Markova, the first British dancer to be bestowed the title of Prima Ballerina Assoluta, is widely considered to be one of the greatest classical ballet dancers in history. Tamara Karsavina was a teacher of Markova.

Leonide Massine
b. 8-9-1897; Moscow
d. 3-15-1979; Cologne, West Germany

Léonide Massine, a ballet dancer and choreographer most often associated with the Ballets Russes, created the world's first symphonic ballet, Les Présages, using Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5.

Massine also appeared in both ballet movies The Red Shoes (1948) and Tales of Hoffmann (1951).

Enrico Cecchetti was one of Massine's teachers.

Cléo de Mérode, née Cléopatra Diane de Mérode
b. 9-27-1875; Paris, France
d. 10-17-1966

Cléo de Mérode was trained in ballet though chose to dance in a Paris music hall. She was renowned for her beauty that influenced Parisian style and for allegedly being the mistress of Belgian King Leopold II.

• Le Ballet de ma vie

Bronislava Nijinska Photograph Print

Bronislava Nijinska
b. 1-8-1891; Minsk
d. 2-2-1972

Her brother, Vaslav Nijinsky, was perhaps the more famous dancer, but Bronislava Nijinska established her own reputation as a dance mistress and choreographer with works including ‘Les Biches,’ ‘Les Noces,’ and the dance sequences for the film version of Shakespeare's ‘A Midsummer Night's Dream.’'

• Bronislava Nijinska: Early Memoirs

Vaslav Nijinsky
b. 3-12-1890; Kiev, Ukraine
d. 4-8-1950; London

Vaslav Nijinsky, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, was a member of Ballet Russe organized by Sergei Diaghilev. Celebrated for his virtuosity and creativity, Nijinsky was diagnosed with schizophrenia and treated by psychiatrist Eugene Bleuler. The music for the ballet Scheherazade was composed by Rimsky-Korsakov.

• Nijinsky, VHS
• The Outsider by Colin Wilson

Rudolph Nureyev
b. 3-17-1938; Irkutsk, Siberia
d. 1-6-1993; Paris (AIDS)

Rudolph Nureyev is regarded as one of the greatest ballet dancers of the 20th century.

• The Perfect Partnership - Fonteyn and Nureyev - DVD
• The Dancer Who Flew: A Memoir of Rudolf Nureyev