She trained at Stedman's Academy and with Mikhail Mordkin, Anna Pavlova, Alexander Shiriaev, Ivan Clustine and Enrico Cecchetti.

[2] Sokolova danced with Vaslav Nijinsky in Le Spectre de la rose but her most famous role was the Chosen Maiden in Léonide Massine's reworking of The Rite of Spring (1920).

[3] Other notable performances include La Boutique fantasque (1919), The Three-Cornered Hat (1919), Les matelots (1925) and Le Bal (1929).

[1] In Bronislava Nijinska's Les biches (1924) she was one of the original pair of Grey Girls, and was quickly promoted to dance the central role of the Hostess.

[6] In collaboration with Richard Buckle, she wrote an autobiographical work on her years with the Ballets Russes, Dancing for Diaghilev (John Murray, London, 1960).