This dancer supposedly slapped a collaborator during a curtain call due to a botched pas de deux ["pah deh duh"] lift; that collaborator was Mikhail Mordkin, who this dancer met while on leave from the (*) Mariinsky Theater.
Autumn Leaves was the only work this dancer ever choreographed. This dancer supposedly slapped a collaborator during a curtain call due to a botched pas de deux ["pah deh duh"] lift; that collaborator was Mikhail Mordkin, who this dancer met while on leave from the (*) Mariinsky Theater. The British Royal Ballet adopted this dancer's steps for an Act I solo in Gisells after they were first notated in the Stepanov notation in 1903. Camille Saint-SaÃ«ns ["say SAHN"] composed the music for and Michael Fokine choreographed a solo from the Carnival of the Animals that this ballerina performed over 4,000 times, The Dying Swan. For 10 points, name this early 20th century Russian ballerina.
Autumn Leaves was the only work this dancer ever choreographed.
Anna Pavlovna Pavlova 