Today Russian ballet is a world-famous brand. It was Anna Pavlova, a famous Russian ballerina, who made it this way more than a hundred years ago. She was the one who suggested Sergei Diaghilev to ...

LONDON, July 10.—Mlle. Anna Pavlova, whose engagement to appear in New York was announced this week, is the première danseuse of the Russian Imperial ballet, which is said to be the greatest ...

Among its talented ranks is the recently appointed principal dancer Misty Copeland, who has continued to defy expectations, taking up ballet at the relatively “late” age of 13, and maintaining ...

One of the first dancers from the Imperial Russian Ballet to dance in Western Europe, Anna Pavlova has been awarded near-mythical status as the Prima Ballerina who brought ballet into the 21 Century.

Picture-book biographies have grown as a genre in recent years, running the gamut of subjects. There have been books on inventors such as Alfred Nobel (The Man Behind the Peace Prize, by Kathy-Jo ...