These dancers, from Marie Taglioni to Misty Copeland, have each in their own way advanced dance, constantly pushing the ...

The dance division, however, has a number of dance shoes that are historically telling. Anna Pavlova’s feet were famously arched and tapered, yet her shoes have much less pronounced blocks for ...

In 1905, prima ballerina Anna Pavlova premiered a solo ballet created just for her, “The Dying Swan,” which she would go on to dance about 4,000 times before her death in 1931. “It was a ...

For every Pierina Legnani, the Russian dancer who pirouetted and assembléd with divine grace and formidable strength as the first Princess Aurora, there is an Anna Pavlova, the original dying ...

is as ethereally delicious as a performance by Anna Pavlova herself. So, to recap: one’s a dancer, the other, a dessert. One makes the near impossible look impossibly easy, while the other looks ...

Russian dancer Anna Pavlova wore the dress in a solo piece called The Dying Swan, first performed in 1907. The five-part series follows textile conservator Emily Austin as she restores the damaged ...

Russian dancer Anna Pavlova wore the dress in a solo piece called The Dying Swan, first performed in 1907. The five-part series follows textile conservator Emily Austin as she restores the damaged ...