Anna pavlova net worth

In , a prodigy appeared in St Petersburg. Anna Pavlova, daughter of a washerwoman and unknown father, was appointed prima ballerina of the Imperial Russian Ballet at the Mariinsky Theatre. Thereafter, her rise was meteoric. Within two years she had conquered the northern European capitals, before arriving in Paris in The break occurred on the eve of a lucrative engagement in New York and a contract to open in April at the Palace Theatre in London with a thirty-five-minute selection of short divertissements drawn from her most famous ballets.

In this she would be supported by her dance partner, Mikhail Mordkin, and four ballerinas from the Imperial Ballet. It mattered little that her programme followed warm-up acts that included Lily Hayes, a comedienne, Selbo, a club juggler, the Palace Girls, a performance in Kinemacolor of the one-reeler Paris, the Gay City and other short newsreels.

Acclaim was universal. News columns were cleared and front pages in the illustrated weeklies were held as editors scoured the agencies for images. To read this article in full, subscribe or buy this edition of the Irish Arts Review. Winter Volume Vol Subscribe or Buy. Volume Vol More from the Winter edition.

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