Alicia Markova

Unearthing a treasure trove of archival footage, filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have fashioned a dazzlingly entrancing ode to the revolutionary twentieth-century dance troupe known as the Ballets Russes. What began as a group of Russian refugees who never danced in Russia became not one but two rival dance troupes who fought the infamous "ballet battles" that consumed London society before World War II. (Zeitgeist Films)

The four Emperors: the composer Igor Stravinsky, the choreographer George Balanchine, the painter Henri Matisse and the entrepreneur Serge de Diaghilev. The Nightingale: the English ballerina Dame Alicia Markova who danced the role of the nightingale in 1925 in Monte-Carlo and Paris, when she was 14 years old. The lost ballet: Le Chant du Rossignol, based on a fairytale of Andersen, created in 1925, and reconstructed in 1999 by two English dancers Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer. (Fipa)