Anna Pavlova

Natalia Makarova and Sir Frederick Ashton discuss Anna Pavlova and
Tamara Karsavina. There are a few clips of Pavlova performing.

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Education

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• pavlova
• ashton
• makarova
• ballerina

[IceRose13Kellira]

yay 5/5 stars! is there any way you could slow down where they sped her up? Pleeeease?

[goldenidol]

If you are talking about the footage where she seems to be holding a wand, spins around on pointe, and then bourees off stage, and is wearing a headdress - it is not sped up she actually was that fast. I think it is from a ballet called "The Fairy Doll".

[trustbaby7]

No one can dance like her. So beautiful and so natural. She just had it.

[swanningaround]

charlotte. In ballet, the dancers in the past may have been dancers in clowns' constumes. History will show that today's ballet, dancers are clowns in dancers' costumes.

[jennyluvballet]

"each individual dancer must have a approach for dance, and plus..." Plus what??? I'm soooo curious!!

[Agirlwithbigdreams44]

Pavlova was told that she had pneumonia and required an operation. She was also told that she would never be able to dance again if she went ahead with it. She refused to have the surgery, saying "If I can't dance then I'd rather be dead." She died of pleurisy, three weeks short of her 50th birthday. She was holding her costume from The Dying Swan when she spoke her last words, "Play the last measure very softly..

Anna Pavlova your the best ballet dancer ever lived!!

I adore you until now.. <3

[JenyaZ14]

@swanningaround  That's right but it's sad of course((

[sophmeister303]

@solidpanther19 she had no children. which makes you either an improbability or a fraud. true she was married, but marriage doesn't mean children. there is no law that requires married couples to have children. and the likelihood of any prima ballerina, let alone anna pavlova, having children is minimal.

[ShalonLuellaps760]

ey kuckt auf mich bin n hamster

[solidpanther19]

@MrKLT1945 Yeah I know but she apperently she did it says on wikipedia that she got married i think

[MrKLT1945]

@solidpanther19 Pavlova had children? That's news to me.

[solidpanther19]

I've said it once i'll say it again!That is my great great great grandma Anna Pavlova

[Esus4]

@ElvenQueen01

When sound came to movies in order to get better sound they started filming at higher speeds to increase the sound quality. When you play back a silent film using a sound projector it appears sped up. They can correct the speed using software though.

[theamazingsoter]

I can't stand these stupid comments about such wonderful artists. It makes me wonder if in 100 years from now people will see videos of Makarova and say the same horrible things about her :/