#anna pavlova

[bebemoon]

"Anna Pavlova’s feet were famously arched and tapered, yet her shoes have much less pronounced blocks for the toes than any modern ballerina would employ. She was the most world-renowned ballerina with the most world-renowned feet — but her shoes make us marvel at the strength those slender feet must have had. (This pair is thought to have been made in the 1920s, a decade when she traveled the globe.) They also have a remarkable amount of side stitching. We can only speculate what support this gave her."

—alastair macaulay on anna pavlova's pointe shoes for the new york times

[theconstantnymph]

Anna Pavlova, 1983 

[eyesfullofmoon]

Anna Pavlova in costume as Giselle.

Photographed by Bert Auguste in Paris, France. 1909.

[rosepompadour]

I imagined her as permanently shod in her sugar-icing pink frock and pink satin ballet shoes.

Cecil Beaton on Anna Pavlova, Ballet

[psikonauti]

John Lavery (Irish,1856-1941)

Anna Pavlova, 1911

Oil on canvas

[vintage-russia]

Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova (1910s)

[lobaznyuk]

Happy (belated) Leap Day! Anna Pavlova (RUS), Flavia Saraiva (BRA), Viktoria Komova (RUS), Isabella Ajalla (ARG), Sun Xinyi (CHN), Yulia Nikolaeva (RUS), Fan Ye (CHN) and Yang Bo (CHN)

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

Anna Pavlova as a Bacchante - John Lavery // Free - Florence + the Machine

[lithium-poet]

happiness is a butterfly ‎₊˚⊹ 𐦍༘⋆₊ ⊹

𝓁ℴ𝓋ℯ, 𝒶𝓇𝒶𝒷ℯ𝓁𝓁𝒶

[bakinochkame]

Чарли Чаплин и Анна Павлова

1922 год. Встреча двух гениальных людей - актера и режиссёра Чарли Чаплина и балерины Анны Павловой. Утверждают, что Чарли всю жизнь был влюблён в Анну, хотя и пережил ее больше, чем на 40 лет. Тогда он ей сказал :»Мы похожи с вами, Анна! Я – бродяга, вы – сильфида. Кому мы нужны? Вот нас и гонят...»

Был ли у них роман?

Конечно, чаплиноведы и павлововеды могут, наверное, ответить на этот вопрос, но случайные люди так не сидят - посмотрите на левую руку Чарли, которая переплетена с правой рукой Анны.

[blackswaneuroparedux]

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

- Anna Pavlova

Ballerinas at Le Palais Garnier in Paris.

[bebemoon]

anna pavlova's plaster life mask by victor frisch, c. 192o .

[theconstantnymph]

Anna Pavlova, 1983 

[eyesfullofmoon]

Anna Pavlova and her pet swan, Jack, at Pavlova's Ivy House in London, England. August 1927.

Photographed by Lafayette.

[rosepompadour]

One day I shall be the princess, and spend my whole life dancing in fairyland.

Anna Pavlova, I Dreamed I Was A Ballerina (1922)

[psikonauti]

Anna Pavlova (Russian,1881-1931)