including serving as President of English National Ballet, a Governor of The Royal Ballet and vice President of the Royal Academy of Dance. Death Some time after suffering a stroke, Markova died on 2 December 2004 in a hospital in Bath, one day after her 94th birthday. She never married. A funeral service was held at Bath's Haycombe Crematorium. A memorial service of thanksgiving for her life and work was held at Westminster Abbey on 8 March 2005. As part of the service, dancers of the English National Ballet company performed extracts from the ballet Giselle (Daria Klimentová, Dmitri Gruzdyev, Erina Takahashi, Arionel Vargas) and Les Sylphides (Agnes Oakes and Simone Clarke). Awards, titles and honours 1957 - Dance Magazine Award 1957 - Woman of the Year Award (American Women's Organisation) 1958 - CBE, Commander of the Order of the British Empire 1963 - DBE, Dame Commander of Order of the British Empire 1963 - Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award, Royal Academy of Dance 1966 - DMus, Honorary Doctorate of Music, Leicester University 1982 - MusD, Honorary Doctorate of Music, University of East Anglia 1994 - Evening Standard Special Award 2000 - Cecchetti D'Argento Award, Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing 2001 - DUniv, Honorary Doctor of the University, Middlesex University Positions Co-Founder and President, English National Ballet Governor, The Royal Ballet Vice President, Royal Academy of Dance President, The London Ballet Circle Patron, The Academy of Indian Dance President, All England Dance Association President, The Arts Educational Schools President, British Ballet Organization Professor of Ballet and Performing Arts, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati Patron, Friends of Northern Ballet Theatre Patron, Abingdon Ballet Seminars Honorary President, ANCEC (Associazione Nationale Coreutica Enrico Cecchetti) Patron, Critics' Circle National Dance Awards Director, Metropolitan Opera Ballet 1963–69 See also List of British Jews Alicia Markova "The Dying Swan" Women in dance References Notes Bibliography "Alicia Markova" by Hugh Fisher "Markova: a collection of photographic studies by Gordon Anthony"; foreword by Dame Ninette de Valois "Markova: her life and art", by Sir Anton Dolin, 1953 External links Andros on Ballet profile of Alicia Markova, michaelminn.net; accessed 17 May 2014 London Ballet Circle website; accessed 17 May 2014 Profile, English National Ballet website; accessed 17 May 2014 Obituary: Dame Alicia Markova Brilliant prima ballerina, Yorkshire Post, 4 December 2004 1910 births 2004 deaths English Jews Jewish dancers English National Ballet Ballets Russes dancers Dancers of