primaballerinas

Anna Pavlova (Pavlovna) (1881 ?-1931) was a Russian ballerina. She joined the Imperial Ballet in 1899 and became a prima ballerina in 1906. Her American debut was made with Mikhail Mordkin, on March 1, 1910, at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, in a revival of Delibes's ballet, Coppelia. After the debut a New York critic declared such dancing had not been seen on the local stage during the present generation and praised the supreme ease with which Pavlova executed the most difficult tricks of the dancer's art. After 1913, she danced independently with her own company around the world. Some of her more famous dances include The Dragon fly, Californian Poppy, and Gavotte. "Pavlova is perhaps most renowned for creating the role of "The Dying Swan", a solo choreographed for her by Michel Fokine. The ballet, created in 1905, is danced to Le cygne from The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns." Pavlova was married to her accompanist, Victor d'Andre. The marriage was announced by the dancer during her last American tour in 1924-25, which was said to be her farewell appearance in this country. Commenting on her marriage at that time, the dancer said:

"For an artist there is no husband. Pavlova the artist and Pavlova the wife, they are two very different persons, so I keep them separate. My dancing belongs to the world, but my husband to myself."

Anna died at the age of 45 of pleurisy at the height of her fame in 1931. She is considered one of the finest classical ballet dancers in history. [1] [2] [3] [4]

I like how casual she appears. You don't see that in many of these old pictures.

New-York tribune., January 24, 1915, Page 5, chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1915-01-24/ed-... Is a full page of photographs of her, with a suggestion that she commissioned huge numbers of photographs herself.

In February 1915, she was dancing in New York, at the Century, with the Ballet Russe. See ad highlighting PAVLOWA at lower left of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1915-02-15/ed-...

if she was born 1881 and died 1931, how could she die at age 45?

Invitation / Invitación / Einladung / Invito / Convite / Uitnodiging / Приглашение /招待

The photo is beautiful

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Such a great ballerina Great picture

Beaming, adoring fans! ;) L to R: Helen Brecknell, Helen Thibou, Sonia Humphrey (1947-2011), Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991) and Michael Somes (1917-1994); Mascot Airport, May, 1957. [1] Don't miss reading "When Sonia met Margot" -- a brief article by Valerie Lawson that explains how these three 9-year-old girls came to meet Margot Fonteyn (and appeared on page one of The Sydney Morning Herald) -- and how this chance meeting led to another front page Herald story, five years later, showing Sonia and Fonteyn looking at the previous photo together. This is a gem of a footnote that totally brings this photo to life!

Thanks, Pixel Wrangler

I truly hope it's not ill-mannered to share a photo from another's photostream here – it's just that, like the nine-year-olds pictured above, I'm a beaming admirer!

Yesterday Dame Margot Fonteyn was honored with a famous Blue Plaque at the site of the London flat she lived in.

– Royal Opera House Covent Garden

"Darcey Bussell unveiling of the blue plaque for Dame Margot Fonteyn on 118 Long Acre, City of London on 7 June 2016."
Photograph © English Heritage, 2016