Dame Alicia Markova
The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000
On this episode of Invitation to Dance, host Walter Terry interviews Dame Alicia Markova, a retired ballerina, and Director of the Metropolitan Opera Ballet. She discusses the transition from performing to directing, working in an opera house as a ballet director, and the upcoming season. She also talks about her early life, her career in ballet, and ballet history.
The host, Walter Terry, was a dance historian and the dance critic for the New York Herald Tribune.
This series was presented in cooperation with the Rebekah Harkness Foundation.
Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection
WNYC archives id: 150009
Municipal archives id: T2262
