Anna Pavlova - Solo to Rubenstein's 9th Symphony (1916)

Again, I have no knowledge about this footage.

It was taken in California in 1916 at the studio of Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford.

It is extraordinary for the highly emotive second half.

Anna Pavlova

This film show Anna Pavlova in Grecian costume doing I know not what.

She seems strangely and surreptitiously supported in arabesque at the beginning. And then does a series of traveling bourrees round the stage and off to the wings. Accompanied by a beautiful fluid porte de bras.

Anna Pavlova - At Home and Traveling

This footage shows Anna Pavlova at home, and on some of her extraordinary travels to take ballet to people all round the globe. I love seeing her going off somewhere by camel!

It comes from a documentary about dance in general. And has Mikhail Baryshnikov as the talking head.

Anna Pavlova in an Unidentified Ballet in the 1920s

Anna Pavlova - 'The Fairy Doll' (1927) Part 1

Anna Pavlova in her dressing room - 1920s

This is the first of two parts of Anna Pavlova in 'The Fairy Doll' (1927).

Anna Pavlova - 'Californian Poppy'

Anna Pavlova dancing in 'Californian Poppy' sometime in the 1920's.

The costume very literally realizes the name of the ballet in its 'petals'.

Moving Glimpses of Great Dancers - Anna Pavlova (1881-1931)

Anna Pavlova in South Africa (1926) - A Close-Up

Talking to her Swans (1930)


Table Dancing (1920's)

Anna Pavlova

Well, what better start than Anna Pavlova (her, in 'Dying Swan' - choreographer: Michael Fokine) - I knew Frederick Ashton who saw this great dancer in Peru in the late 1920's - so two degrees of separation!