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Anna Pavlova |
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Ballerina, born 1881 in St Petersburg, Russia. She trained at the Imperial Ballet School there, and became world famous, creating roles in work by Fokine, in particular The Dying Swan (1905). After a period with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, she began touring Europe with her own company (1909). She choreographed over a dozen works, of which the best known are Snowflakes (1915) and Autumn Leaves (1918). Conservative and romantic in her aesthetic, she did much to create the stereotyped image of the ballerina. |