[3] She was fired for insubordination by Diaghilev, after she refused to add another ballet to her repertoire or dance with Alexander Gavriloff, without an increase in her pay.

She toured in Asia for several years,[9][10] then joined Mikhail Mordkin's short-lived Russian Ballet Company in the United States in 1926.

In 1928, she toured with the Alexis Kosloff Ballet,[11][12] and she appeared in a production of Scheherazade at Carnegie Hall.

[14] Carl Van Vechten admired the dancer's technical skill, saying "I have forgotten how many times Mlle.

However, he found her lacking in "grace, poetry, and imagination", and judged that Makletzova "really offended the eye" in The Firebird.