Anna Pavlova Research Paper

Anna Pavlova was born on February 12, 1881 in St. Petersburg, Russia. After she attended the Imperial Ballet School she made her own company debut in 1899 and she quickly became the prima ballerina. Her breakthrough performance was in The Dying Swan in 1905 which became her signature role. Contracting double pneumonia while she was on tour Pavlova died in 1931. Anna’s active imagination and love of fantasy drew her to the world of ballet. Looking back to her childhood she described her budding passion for ballet accordingly: “ I always wanted to dance from my youngest years..thus I built castles in the air out of my dreams and hopes.” Even though they were poor Anna and her mother were still able to see a performance of “The Sleeping Beauty” at the Mariinsky Theatre. When Anna was only 8 years old, she declared she was resolved to become a ballet …show more content…
In 1911 Anna Pavlova took a major step in her career by forming her own ballet company. Anna was able to retain complete creative control over performances and even she choreograph her own roles. Anna put her husband Victor Dandre in charge of organizing her independent tours. The final two decades of her ballet career she toured with her company all over the world as the little girls watched in awe and were inspired to become a dancer. The same way Anna had been at the Mariinsky Theatre all those years ago. In 1930 when Anna was only 50 years old her 30 year dance career had come to physically wear on her. Anna decided to take a Christmas vacation after wrapping up a particularly arduous tour in England. At the end of her vacation she boarded a train back to The Hague where she planned to resume dancing. From Cannes to Paris the train was an accident. Anna was unharmed in the accident but she was left waiting out the delay for 12 hours on the platform. It was a snowy evening and Anna was only wearing a thin jacket and her flimsy silk