Anna Pavlova Research Paper

Make Up Assignment #1: Biographical Narrative

Throughout my years in school, I have studied a plethora of famous people; including dancers. One person in particular that stands out to me is Anna Pavlova. She was a famous Russian ballerina and choreographer. She was the first person to found a ballet company that toured around the world. Pavlova was born in St. Petersburg, Russia on February 12, 1881 and attended the Imperial ballet school. Anna is special because she isn’t like a lot of other well-known dancers. Unlike other dancers who made their way to fame with the power of money, Anna was raised in a poor family and worked hard to get what she wanted. She definitely left her mark on society’s ballet dancers and many are inspired by the way she first became interested in ballet.

From the time when Anna was a child, she had an active imagination and love of fantasy. She believed these aspects of her personality are what drew her to the world of ballet. Although her family was poor, her mother was able to afford a trip to the Mariinsky Theatre to see the ballet production of the Sleeping Beauty. After seeing this performance, Anna was so amazed and inspired that she decided she wanted to become a ballet dancer herself. Anna’s mother supported her every step of the way and did what she could to make her daughter’s

She was promoted to fist-soloist just a year later. Anna danced in several beautiful pieces, including; La Fille Mal Gardée in a group of three, danced the difficult part of Giselle, and The Dying Swan which was her most famous piece. Seven years into Anna’s career, she was promoted to a Prima Ballerina, which is the chief ballerina in a ballet or ballet company. These types of accomplishments were unheard of in such a short amount of time, but the amount of work she put in was almost unheard of as