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Anna Pavlova : a woman for all time.
- Title
- Anna Pavlova : a woman for all time.
- Publication
- West Long Branch, N.J. : Kultur, 2000.
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (135 min.) : sound, color; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- Filmed on location in Russia and England, this colorful and entertaining feature film re-creates in glorious detail the fascinating life story of the legendary ballerina Anna Pavlova. Anna Pavlova (1881-1931) was the most famous classical ballerina of her era. Born in St. Petersburg, she was trained at the school of the Imperial Ballet, made her debut as soloist in 1899, and became prima ballerina of the company in 1906. Pavlova toured Europe in 1907, appeared briefly with the Ballets Russes of the Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev, and in 1910 made her American debut with the Russian dancer Mikhail Mordkin at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. She founded her own company in 1911, and until 1925, when she retired, she danced extensively in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia, often bringing ballet for the first time to remote areas. Conservative in her aesthetics, Pavlova was an outstanding representative of classical Russian ballet, admired for the poetic quality of her movement. She was also interested in ethnic dances and in the dance techniques of India and Japan. Her most famous classical roles were in 'Giselle', 'Swan Lake', 'Les Sylphides', 'Don Quixote', 'Coppelia', and in the solo dance 'The Dying Swan', created for her in 1905 by the great Russian choreographer Michel Fokine. This thrilling and memorable feature film is a celebration of the spectacular life and career of one of the most remarkable performing artists of all time.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Feature films.
- Biographical films.
- Films biographiques.
- Note
- Filmed on location in Russia and England, this colorful and entertaining feature film re-creates in glorious detail the fascinating life story of the legendary ballerina Anna Pavlova. Anna Pavlova (1881-1931) was the most famous classical ballerina of her era. Born in St. Petersburg, she was trained at the school of the Imperial Ballet, made her debut as soloist in 1899, and became prima ballerina of the company in 1906. Pavlova toured Europe in 1907, appeared briefly with the Ballets Russes of the Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev, and in 1910 made her American debut with the Russian dancer Mikhail Mordkin at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. She founded her own company in 1911, and until 1925, when she retired, she danced extensively in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia, often bringing ballet for the first time to remote areas. Conservative in her aesthetics, Pavlova was an outstanding representative of classical Russian ballet, admired for the poetic quality of her movement. She was also interested in ethnic dances and in the dance techniques of India and Japan. Her most famous classical roles were in 'Giselle', 'Swan Lake', 'Les Sylphides', 'Don Quixote', 'Coppelia', and in the solo dance 'The Dying Swan', created for her in 1905 by the great Russian choreographer Michel Fokine. This thrilling and memorable feature film is a celebration of the spectacular life and career of one of the most remarkable performing artists of all time.
- Credits (note)
- Executive producer, Frixos Constantine ; written and directed by Emil Lotianou ; Western version supervised by Michael Powell. Starring Galina Beliaeva as Anna Pavlova, James Fox as Victor D'Andre, Martin Scorsese as Gatti-Cassaza, Roy Kinnear as the Gardener, and Bruce Forsyth as Alfred Batt.
- System Details (note)
- VHS; hi-fi, Dolby.
- ISBN
- 0769721389
- 9780769721385
- OCLC
- ocm55717180
- 55717180
- SCSB-1262310
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library