Kings of ballet dance: Anna Pavlova

Anna Pavlova, the finest classical dancer of the late 19th century and early 20th century and she was the first ballet dancer to tour all around the world. She struggled a lot to pursue her career and her mother was a laundress and she started to love the ballet when she saw the performance of maruis petipa’s show of sleeping beauty and she wanted to learn ballet at her early age and she was rejected by the imperial ballet school at the age of eight.

Anna Pavlova's first ballet stage appearance was in the age of ten in maruis petipa’s the fairy tale. She struggled a lot to reach the position of a great dancer and her sickly appearance was criticized by her fellow mates. She learned from many teachers and improved her performance and made her first official appearance in mariinsky theater. Her stunned performance was praised by a famous critics and historian nikolai bezobrazov. She became a favorite of her old maestro petipa’s and due to her performance she was called by many names such as coryphée, Giselle and pavlovatzi. She is known for her portrayal of swan in the dying swan and swan lake. She was introduced to the audience of united states from 1914 to 1917. she quoted many quotes and one of the quotes that impressed me a lot is “What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal”. The great ballet dancer died for the dance while she was instructed to have an operation for pneumonia and said that she could not dance after her operation. She didn’t have that operation and said. “If I can't dance then I'd rather be dead”.