Anna Pavlova

Anna Pavlova and Swan

Anna Pavlova, (January 31, 1881 - January 23, 1931) was a Russian ballerina of the late 19th and the early 20th century. She is widely regarded as one of the finest classical ballet dancers in history and was most noted as a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev. Pavlova is most recognized for the creation of the role The Dying Swan and, with her own company, became the first ballerina to tour ballet around the world.

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Mia Slavenska

Mia Slavenska (Slavonski Brod, February 20, 1916 – Los Angeles, October 5, 2002), birth name Mia Corak, was a Croatian-born American prima ballerina. She formed the Slavenska Ballette Variante and, later, the Theatre Ballette.

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Vintage Photo

Two ballerinas gazing out of studio window in rehearsal room at George Balanchine’s School of American Ballet. New York, 1936.

 By Alfred Eisenstaed

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