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Pavlova, Anna 1881-1931
Russian ballerina
Born in St Petersburg, she trained there at the Imperial Ballet School, and quickly became famous, creating roles in work by Michel Fokine, in particular The Dying Swan (1907). After travelling to Paris with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1909, she began touring all over the world with her own company dancing reduced versions of the classics. She choreographed over a dozen works of which the best known are Snowflakes (1915) and Autumn Leaves (1919). She did much to create the stereotyped image of the ballerina which persists today.
Bibliography: Victor Dandré, Anna Pavlova (1932)
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