Anton Dolin

Sir Anton Dolin, né Patrick Healey-Kay (27 July 1904, Slinfold, West Sussex — 25 November 1983, Paris, France), was a British ballet dancer and choreographer. He came to prominence as the principal dancer in Serge Diaghilev's renowned Ballets Russes company in the mid-1920s, adopting the "Slavonic" pseudonym. Dolin was the principal dancer with the Vic-Wells Ballet in the 1930s and Ballet Theatre (1940 to 1946), co-founding a prolific London Festival Ballet in 1950 with his partner and frequent collaborator, Alicia Markova (1910—2004). He was knighted in 1981.