Anna Pavlov The Dying Swan

Anna Pavlova was born on February 12, 1881, in St. Petersburg, Russia. She joined the Imperial Ballet School, were she made her company debut in 1899 and rapidly became a prima ballerina. Her way forward was performing in The Dying Swan in 1905, which became her mark role. She then joined the Ballet Russe in 1909 and formed her own company in 1911. Pavlova died in 1931, after contracting double pneumonia while on tour. Because Anna graduated as a coryphée, she was able to bypass the typical initiation rite of dancing in large groups, and was permitted to dance in smaller groups right away. She made her company debut new out of dance school, on 19 September 1899 as a gifted young ballerina, dancing in a group of three in La Fille Mal Gardée. The show took place at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg—the same theater where, Anna Pavlova as a child had first decided to become a dancer. …show more content…
In 1905 Anna Pavlova made her breakthrough performance, she danced the lead solo in choreographer Michael Fokine's The Dying Swan, with music by Camille Saint-Saëns. With her subtle movements and intense facial expressions, Anna achieved to carry to the audience the play's complex message about the fragility and preciousness of life. The Dying Swan was to become Anna Pavlova's signature role. In 1930, Anna now being 50 years old, her 30-year dance career had come to bodily wear on her. She decided to take a Christmas vacation after wrapping up a mainly difficult tour in England. At the end of her vacation, she embarked a train back to The Hague, where she intended to resume dancing. On its way from Cannes to Paris, the train was in an accident. Anna was unharmed in the accident, but she was left waiting out the delay for 12 hours on the