This research is still ongoing if anyone knows any further details, please let me know! Pavlova in La Fille mal gardée. In many ways I feel akin to these early touring companies-although I don’t think my version of living out of a suitcase is as glamorous!Įarlier this year I arrived in Austin, Texas to undertake a fellowship with the Harry Ransom Center which actually has an incredible dance collection including costumes from the Ballets Russes! I knew from my research for the article ‘Nijinsky’s Week in Texas’ that the Ballets Russes had spent a week in Texas in 1916 but what about Anna Pavlova and her company? The following is what I found mostly pieced together from newspaper reviews and the accounts of one of Pavlova’s young dancers. I am a dance and costume historian and I spend a lot of time traveling to new places. It has become a pilgrimage of exploration, with me more often than not finding my way to the site where a theater once stood.
For many years now, upon arriving in a new city one of the first things I do is find out not where the best places to eat or visit are, but to research whether Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes or Anna Pavlova’s company performed there.
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