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8 October 2012

The Tramp meets the Dying Swan

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A beautiful encounter between two great movement artists captured in this 1922 photograph. Charlie Chaplin and Anna Pavlova. [...]

28 September 2012

REVIEW: The Los Angeles Philharmonic dances!

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A huge week for dance in Los Angeles, the premiere of L.A. Dance Project under the direction of Benjamin Millepied, and then, last night a symphony gala celebrating what Los Angeles Philharmonic conductor Gustavo Dudamel, in pre-concert remarks, called “a union of the arts.” [...]

31 October 2010

Ruth Page’s Pavlova passion

The great Chicago dance maker Ruth Page reminisces on the impact Anna Pavlova had on her career and on her life. [...]

29 October 2010

Ballet is dead. Long live ballet.

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The lack of direction in the dance world has grown so dire that dance writers are scribbling what was previously unimaginable. Essays with titles like: “Is Ballet Over?” Other writers, however, are pushing back. [...]

8 March 2010

Pavlov(a)’s dog … of a movie

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Anna Pavlova’s sole appearance in a feature film was in “The Dumb Girl of Portici” by Universal Pictures in 1915. Even Hollywood’s highest paying director, a woman named Lois Weber, did not succeed in bringing out Pavlova’s soulful quality. [...]

27 February 2010

Anna Pavlova visits Hollywood

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When Anna Pavlova made “The Dumb Girl of Portici” for female director Lois Weber at Universal Studios in 1915, she demanded and received privacy on the set. Then Pavlova returned in 1925 for the filming of her ballet dancing at Pickford-Fairbanks studios. [...]