Ruth Page (ballerina)
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Ruth Page was an American ballerina and choreographer, who created innovative works on American themes.
Ruth Page in the 1920s (Newberry Library, Chicago)
Dancing with Hubert Stowitts, from a 1923 magazine
Anna Pavlova
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Anna Pavlovna Pavlova was a Russian prima ballerina. She was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev, but is most recognized for creating the role
Ruth Page (ballerina)
…with Jan Zalewski, Adolph Bolm, Enrico Cecchetti, Harald Kreutzberg and Mary Wigman. She made her professional debut on Broadway in 1917, then with Anna Pavlova’s Company on its tour of South America in 1918, and at Chicago's Auditorium Theater in John Alden Carpenter’s The Birthday of the Infanta in 1919. She…
Pavlova, c. 1905
Students of the Imperial Ballet School, St. Petersburg, in Marius Petipa's Un conte de fées. A ten-year-old A Pavlova (kneeling on left, holding birdcage) appeared in her first ever ballet performance. 1891.
Caricature of Pavlova as Nikiya in La Bayadère by the brothers Nikolai Legat and Sergei Legat for their book The Russian Ballet In Caricatures. 1903
Anna Pavlova in 1905