...artist created original costume, fashion designs, jewelry and accessories for many of the century's screen actresses from Anna Pavlova to Marilyn Monroe. His creations for the stage included extravagant designs for productions at such venues as the Casino...
...is 94 and has the best stories of the Zeppelin attacking Leith, growing up with seven siblings in a room and kitchen and seeing Anna Pavlova dance her Dying Swan at the Edinburgh Empire, often arrives with a giant bar of chocolate for the children, but they...
...Ballet Russes, Anna Aktmatova, Leon Bakst, Alexandre Benois, Aleksandr Blok, Wassily Kandinksy, Vaslav Nijinsky, Anna Pavlova, Nicholas Roerich, Alexksandr Scriabin, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Igor Stravinsky and Mikhail Vrubel. Lesser knowns such as painter...
...stars and world-renowned performing artists have appeared on the Emery stage, including Russian ballet dancers Nijinsky and Anna Pavlova, actresses Bette Davis and Katherine Cornell, and composers John Philip Sousa and George Gershwin, who played his famous...
...he produced sumptuously colorful albums celebrating Nijinsky and Tamara Karsavina, and designed costumes for the ballerina Anna Pavlova. But he parted company with the Ballets Russes aesthetically and musically with the Cubist-style production "Parade" in...
... "As a child I remember going to parties, particularly Mischa Burlakov's parties (he came out from Russia with prima ballerina Anna Pavlova). There was a certain camaraderie in the dance community. They would serve Russian food and Dad would lead the dancing....
...lipstick on, it helps." Cosmetics are all the more crucial to a role such as Arkadina, a glamourous ballerina modelled after Anna Pavlova, in The Seagull, which makes its North American debut tomorrow. Choreographed by the Hamburg Ballet's John Neumeier, The...
...note of his fascination with pointes. He happily recalled that it all began in 1924, when as a 16-year-old he saw Anna Pavlova make an entrance down some steps "on full pointe," which struck him as "an absolute miracle." The inimitable way Tudor employed pointes...
...singers Feodor Chaliapin and Enrico Caruso, the poet Alexander Pushkin, the actress Sarah Bernhardt and the ballet dancer Anna Pavlova have all counted the Ukrainian port as home. For us there was one particularly happy connection: most of the ship's cabin crew...
...substantial dancing. Saint-Saens' “Swan” movement was used for the poignant “Dying Swan” solo by Michel Fokine that became Anna Pavlova's signature. Velasco adapted the Fokine choreography for Rachel Sebastian. Unlike the top interpreters of this solo, Sebastian...