Word: pavlova
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prime & Proportion. In brown-eyed, British-born Margot Fonteyn, Sadler's Wells had its coloratura. Her perfectly proportioned ballerina body (5 ft. 4 in., 112 Ibs.), her effortless grace and technique had U.S. ballet connoisseurs and critics going back for comparisons to such ballet immortals as Anna Pavlova, Olga Spessivtzeva and Tamara Karsavina, the sometime partner of the great Nijinsky. Just behind Fonteyn were two other fine dancers who could take her roles: tall, handsome Beryl Grey, 22, and flame-haired, 23-year-old Moira Shearer, dancing star of the British film The Red Shoes (which...
...William Rothenstein, president of London's Royal College of Arts, felt justified in feeling peeved that day in 1923: his star pupil was deserting him. Young Uday Shankar, who had come all the way from India to study painting, was about to join Anna Pavlova's ballet troupe. "Please, persuade Mme. Pavlova not to do this," Sir William begged a friend. Replied Pavlova: "Please tell Sir William that Shankar is a born dancer. He must dance. Oh, he must dance...
...Among others, Danilova, Toumanova, Baronova and the late great Pavlova have done all right in ballet, though married...
Agnes remembers herself as a plump and awkward little girl, who liked to scurry about the house, at the age of seven, imitating Pavlova. Her father, Playwright William de Mille (a brother of Producer Cecil B.), thought her imitation preposterous. Agnes could be anything she wanted, he said-except a dancer...
...Erica says, "I hate that label. It's obvious I'm a woman, but what does that have to do with it?" She is well aware that few women have made their mark in the arts, and that they are mostly singers (Schumann-Heink), dancers (Pavlova) or novelists (Jane Austen, the Brontës, George Eliot). There have been women composers like Cécile Chaminade, but no Bachs or Beethovens; painters like Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keeffe, but no Rembrandts or Michelangelos; poets like Sappho and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, but no Dantes...