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Alanova, also known as Kyra Alanova, Allanova, Alice di Robilant, Alicia Alanova, Alisa Allanova or Alice Allan (Seattle, 26 luglio 1902 – Venezia, 21 dicembre 1965), was an American dancer, choreographer and actress.

Born in Seattle, USA, to a Russian father who emigrated in the early 1900s, choreographer and dancer, Alanova followed in her father's footsteps in the field of ballet, joining Diaghilev's Ballet Russes (mentioned in the programs as Allanova) from 1918 to 1924.

Active in Paris in the 30's, she's portrayed by Kees Van Dongen (they've had probably an affair ) in several paintings ("Portrait of Miss Alanova", "Jeune fille aux pieds nus").

At the end of the 1930s, when in Italy for a tour in the most important theatres, she meets Count Andrea di Robilant, movie producer, the two get married shortly after and Alanova remains to work in Italy for a few years.

Introduced by her husband to the world of cinema, she made her debut in the role of Countess Della Rovere in Giuliano de' Medici by Ladislao Vajda filmed in the Pisorno studios in Tirrenia, the first of a series of five films in the last of which she will be directed by Alberto Lattuada in La freccia nel fianco from the novel by Luciano Zuccoli.

With the end of the war, Alanova leaves the cinema and resumes her activity as a choreographer in various dance shows until 1946, after which her traces are lost.

Performances

 * 1919: La Boutique fantasque (music by Gioacchino Rossini, arr. Ottorino Respighi, choreography: Léonide Massine), Djaghilev's Ballet Russes company, London, Alhambra Theatre, June 5th, 1919 I balletti russi di Djaghilev tra storia e mito, parte II, Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, edited by Patrizia Veroli e Gianfranco Vinaj, page 327.
 * 1919: The Three-Cornered Hat (music by Manuel de Falla, choreography: Léonide Massine), Djaghilev's Ballet Russes company, London, Alhambra Theatre, July 22nd, 1919 I balletti russi di Djaghilev tra storia e mito, parte II, Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, edited by Patrizia Veroli e Gianfranco Vinaj, page 327.
 * 1920: Le chant du Rossignol (music by Igor Stravinsky, choreography: Léonide Massine), Paris, Théâtre National de l’Opéra, February 2nd, 1920 I balletti russi di Djaghilev tra storia e mito, parte II, Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, edited by Patrizia Veroli e Gianfranco Vinaj, page 328.
 * 1920, 1924: Ballet de l'astuce féminine or Cimarosiana (music by Domenico Cimarosa, choreography: Léonide Massine), Paris, Théâtre National de l’Opéra, May 27th, 1920 I balletti russi di Djaghilev tra storia e mito, parte II, Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, edited by Patrizia Veroli e Gianfranco Vinaj, page 328. and Monaco, Théâtre de Monte Carlo, January 8th, 1924 I balletti russi di Djaghilev tra storia e mito, parte II, Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, edited by Patrizia Veroli e Gianfranco Vinaj, page 336.
 * 1920: Le sacre du Printemps (music by Igor Stravinsky, choreography: Léonide Massine), Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, December 14th, 1920 I balletti russi di Djaghilev tra storia e mito, parte II, Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, edited by Patrizia Veroli e Gianfranco Vinaj, page 329.
 * 1921: Chout (music by Sergei Prokofiev, choreography: Tadeusz Sławiński and supervision by Mikhail Larionov), Paris, Théâtre de la Gaîté-Lyrique, May 17th, 1921 I balletti russi di Djaghilev tra storia e mito, parte II, Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, edited by Patrizia Veroli e Gianfranco Vinaj, page 329.
 * 1921: The Sleeping Beauty (music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, choreography: Marius Petipa), London, Alhambra Theatre, November 2nd, 1921 I balletti russi di Djaghilev tra storia e mito, parte II, Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, edited by Patrizia Veroli e Gianfranco Vinaj, page 330-1.
 * 1922: The Wedding of the Sleeping Beauty (music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, choreography: Marius Petipa), Paris, Théâtre National de l’Opéra, May 18th, 1922 I balletti russi di Djaghilev tra storia e mito, parte II, Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, edited by Patrizia Veroli e Gianfranco Vinaj, page 332.
 * 1922: Les noces (music by Igor Stravinsky, choreography: la Nijinska), Paris, Théâtre de la Gaîté-Lyrique, June 13th, 1923 I balletti russi di Djaghilev tra storia e mito, parte II, Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, edited by Patrizia Veroli e Gianfranco Vinaj, page 333.
 * 1923: Les noces (music by Igor Stravinsky, choreography: la Nijinska), Paris, Théâtre de la Gaîté-Lyrique, June 13th, 1923 I balletti russi di Djaghilev tra storia e mito, parte II, Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, edited by Patrizia Veroli e Gianfranco Vinaj, page 333.
 * 1924: Les_Tentations_de_la_Bergère (music by Monteclair, choreography: la Nijinska), Monaco, Théâtre de Monte Carlo, January 3rd, 1924 I balletti russi di Djaghilev tra storia e mito, parte II, Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, edited by Patrizia Veroli e Gianfranco Vinaj, page 333.
 * 1924: Le medicin malgre lui (music by Charles Gounod, choreography: la Nijinska), Monaco, Théâtre de Monte Carlo, January 5th, 1924 I balletti russi di Djaghilev tra storia e mito, parte II, Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, edited by Patrizia Veroli e Gianfranco Vinaj, page 335.
 * 1924: Les biches (music by Francis Poulenc, choreography: la Nijinska), Monaco, Théâtre de Monte Carlo, January 6th, 1924 I balletti russi di Djaghilev tra storia e mito, parte II, Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, edited by Patrizia Veroli e Gianfranco Vinaj, page 335.
 * 1924: Les fâcheux (music by Modest Mussorgsky, choreography: la Nijinska), Monaco, Théâtre de Monte Carlo, January 19th, 1924 I balletti russi di Djaghilev tra storia e mito, parte II, Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, edited by Patrizia Veroli e Gianfranco Vinaj, page 336.
 * 1924: La Nuit sur le Mont chauve (music by Georges Auric, choreography: la Nijinska), Monaco, Théâtre de Monte Carlo, April 13th, 1924 I balletti russi di Djaghilev tra storia e mito, parte II, Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, edited by Patrizia Veroli e Gianfranco Vinaj, page 337.
 * 1924: Le train bleu (music by Darius Milhaud, choreography: la Nijinska), Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, June 20th, 1924 I balletti russi di Djaghilev tra storia e mito, parte II, Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, edited by Patrizia Veroli e Gianfranco Vinaj, page 337.


 * Recital, Balletti Alanova, Roma 1944
 * Tiepolesco, musiche di V. Tommasini, coreografie di Alanova, scene e costumi di Enrico Prampolini, Roma 1944.
 * Tiepolesco, di V. Tommasini, recital di Alanova, Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, costumi e scene di Enrico Prampolini, 1945.
 * Ma mère l'oye, musica di Maurice Ravel, orchestra di Alfredo Casella, coreografie di Alanova, Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, 1945
 * Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, musiche di Claudio Monteverdi, orchestra diretta da Franco Capuana, coreografie Alanova, scene e costumi di Toti Scialoja, 1945.

Filmography
Features:


 * Escort Girl (1941) as Flamenco Dancer (uncredited)


 * Giuliano de' Medici, regia di Ladislao Vajda (1941)
 * La zia smemorata, regia di Ladislao Vajda (1941)
 * Le due tigri, regia di Giorgio Simonelli (1942)
 * Canal Grande, regia di Andrea Di Robilant (1943)
 * La freccia nel fianco, regia di Alberto Lattuada e Mario Costa (1945)