Russian Ballet Dancer Anna Pavlova

Russian Ballet Dancer Anna Pavlova

Introduction

Out of the many dance forms Ballet is also a form of dancing performed to entertain the theater audience. Similar to other dance forms ballet is also a source of expression which might tell a story or express a mood or simply reflect the music being played upon which it is performed.

The highlight of ballet dancing is the technique of dancing of the ballet dancer and the special skills which they posses; this differentiates them largely from other forms of dancing. A classical ballet dancer is one which executes these movements swiftly and uniformly as the dance seems natural. Anna Pavlova is one of the most highly acclaimed ballet dancers in the world.

Anna Pavlova Russian Ballet Dancer was born in 1881 in the city of St. Petersburg is acclaimed as one of the all time greatest ballet Dancer because of the traditional feel which she brought to the dance format of Ballet. Anna Pavlova was a popular Russian Empire ballerina in the later part of the 19th century and the early years of the twentieth century. Amongst her most famous works was the role she portrayed in the performance of The Dying Swan. She was the first ballerina who made a world tour with her company.

Anna Pavlova is recognized for her services to the dance format of Ballet and her achievements in Russia, France, United States, and her overall impact upon the format globally. She died very young at the age of 49 in the year 1931. The paper further discusses her early life, career, and her achievements (Andros, 2010).

Discussion

Childhood

Anna Pavlova adopted her surname from her second father who married her mother when she was three, his name was Matvey Pavlov. Her biological father was Lazar Polyakov who was a banker by profession and a Jewish Russian as suggested by The Saint Petersburg Gazette. Her mother was a washer woman; his step father was a reserve soldier for the army.

Anna found an inspiration and attraction towards the art of ballet dancing when her mother took her to Imperial Maryinsky Theatre at a very young age to witness a ballet performance of The Sleeping Beauty by Mariuys Petipa. She was only nine when she became obsessed by this performance and at that same age her mother took her for audition to the renowned ballet school of those times namely Imperial Ballet School.

In the first audition she was rejected on the basis of her age and sickly appearance. However, the nest year at the age of 10 she was finally accepted by the school. The first time she made her presence on the stage was for a Marius Petipa's written story A Fairy Tale which the ballet master had specially staged for the school students (Kerensky, 1973).

Her training period was not easy as the classical ballet techniques are not easy to learn. Her body was not suited for the ballerina of those times as she had long limbs, thin ankles and ...