What is so special about Anna Pavlova?
With her poetic, expressive style of dance, Pavlova often moved her audiences to tears. She played a key role in making classical ballet popular all over the world. Born into poverty in St Petersburg, Russia, Pavlova trained at the city's Imperial Ballet School.
What were Anna Pavlova’s last words?
Get my Swan costume ready. Anna Pavlova died on the 23rd January 1931, aged 49, three weeks before her 50th birthday. According to her common-law husband, Victor Dandré, as she lay on her deathbed, her last words were “Get my Swan costume ready.” She was cremated and her ashes are retained at Golders Green Crematorium.
Did Anna Pavlova ever get married?
For some time she kept secret her marriage to her manager, Victor Dandré. The pair never had children; however, in 1920, Pavlova founded a home for Russian refugee orphans in Paris.
What made Anna Pavlova fall ill?
Ill for Three Days Pavlova, who died after a three-day illness with influenza and pleurisy, was 45 years old and lacked only eight days of being 46, as her birthday was Jan. 31.
Павлова танцевала партию Армиды в премьерном спектакле «Павильон Армиды» 19 мая 1909 года в «Русских сезонах» Сергея Дягилева в Париже, а 2 июня выступала на парижских премьерах балетов «Сильфиды» и «Клеопатра» (название 2-й редакции «Египетских ночей»).
22 января 1907 года на благотворительном вечере в Мариинском театре Анна Павлова впервые исполнила поставленную для неё М. Фокиным хореографическую миниатюру « …