Anna Pavlova : a woman for all time / Poseidon Productions Ltd., Sovinfilm and Mosfilm ; written and directed by Emil Lotianou ; executive producer, Frixos Constantine.
Edition:
Western version / supervised by Michael Powell.
Publisher:
Kultur,
Copyright Date:
2000?
Description:
1 videocassette (135 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Galina Beliaeva, James Fox, Sergei Shakourov, V. Larionov, Martin Scorsese, Roy Kinnear. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1983. A foreign film (England, Soviet Union)
Summary:
Filmed on location in Russia, England, and elsewhere, this film re-creates the 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.
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