Anna Pavlova

Career Trajectory

Trained at the Imperial Ballet School and promoted to prima ballerina at the Mariinsky Theatre, Pavlova achieved worldwide fame through her collaboration with choreographer Michel Fokine, most notably in The Dying Swan (1905), a revolutionary solo that became the most performed dance in history. She founded her own company and spent decades touring internationally, bringing classical ballet to audiences across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and beyond, establishing herself as the most celebrated dancer of her era and a transformative figure in twentieth-century dance.