born: 1881
died: 1931
Russian. Studied at the Imperial Ballet School, St. Petersburg. Joined Imperial Ballet, St. Petersburg in 1899, was made prima ballerina in 1906.
Made several guest appearances in Europe in 1907. Was a guest artist with the Ballets Russes in 1909, partnering, among others, Vaslav Nijinsky. Resigned from the Imperial Ballet in 1913 and never returned to Russia. Founded her own company and toured the world with it for the rest of her life.
Anna Pavlova inspired at least three generations of women dancers, and is considered the best female dancer of all time, on a scale with Nijinsky. Michel Fokine created The Dying Swan for her, a role she will always be remembered in. Since 1974 her residence in London has been the Anna Pavlova Memorial Museum and the headquarters of the Pavlova Society. She died of pneumonia three days after insisting on performing in Paris instead of seeing a doctor or resting.
Yuanyuan Tan
is a principal dancer with the San Francisco Ballet. She entered Shanghai Dance School at the age of 11. Initially her father opposed this. He wanted her to become a medical doctor. Her mother, however, was very supportive. Her fate was settled by a coin toss. The coin landed on heads and Yuanyuan Tan started her dancing career.
She won multiple international awards at early age, including a gold medal and the Nijinsky Award at the 1st Japan International Ballet and Modern Dance Competition (1993), a gold medal in the 5th International Ballet Competition in Paris (1992). At age 18, she became a soloist dancer with the San Francisco Ballet Company. Two years later, in 1997, at age 20, she was promoted to Principal Dancer, attaining the highest position for a ballet dancer, a very unusually rapid upward path. She was at that time the youngest principal dancer ever in the history of the San Francisco Ballet company. Today, she is a marquee name for the company, while San Francisco Ballet Company itself is widely considered to be among the best in the world and in the words of choreographer Mark Morris, the "best company in North America."
She has danced lead female roles in Tomasson's Giselle, Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, Nutcracker; Tomasson/Possokhov's Don Quixote; Morris' Sylvia; and Lubovitch's Othello. She created roles in Tomasson's The Fifth Season, Chi-Lin, Silver Ladders, and 7 for Eight; Possokhov's Magrittomania, Damned, and Study in Motion; Wheeldon's Continuum and Quaternary; and Welch's Tu Tu. Her repertory includes Ashton's Thaïs Pas de Deux; Balanchine's Symphony in C, Theme and Variations, Concerto Barocco, Prodigal Son, and Apollo; Duato's Without Words; Robbins' In the Night, Dances at a Gathering, and Dybbuk; and Makarova's Paquita.
Her fame is much greater in China, as she is the most critically acclaimed ballet dancer ever to come out of China, and to this day, the only Chinese ballet dancer to reach the rank of principal dancer at a major international ballet company. She has been featured in the Chinese versions of Vogue, Esquire, Tattler, etc. Currently she is also a brand ambassador for Van Cleef & Arpels and Rolex.
She was the cover person for Time Magazine, Asia's Heroes, 2004.
Sylvie Guillem CBE (born 23 February 1965 in Paris, France[1]) is a French ballet dancer. As a child, Guillem trained in gymnastics under the instruction of her mother, a gymnastics teacher.[1] In 1977, at age 11, she began training at the Paris Opera Ballet School, and in 1981 joined the company, dancing in the corps de ballet. She was the top-ranking female dancer with the Paris Opera Ballet from 1984 to 1989, before becoming a principal guest artist with the Royal Ballet in London. She is currently performing contemporary dance as an Associate Artist of London's Sadler's Wells Theatre. Her most notable performances have included those in Giselle and in Rudolf Nureyev's stagings of Swan Lake and Don Quixote.... tbc
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