Pavlova, Anna

Japanese: パブロワ（英語表記）Pavlova, Anna

Born: February 12, 1881 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
[Died] January 23, 1931. Russian ballerina, Hague, Netherlands. Full name: Anna Pavlovna Pavlova. After graduating from the Russian Imperial Choreographic School, she joined the Mariinsky Theatre Ballet Company and achieved great success in the lead role of Giselle, becoming prima ballerina in 1906. In 1907, she left the Mariinsky Theatre Ballet Company and toured Europe, including participating in Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Later, due to conflict over ballet works centered on men, she left the company and formed her own ballet company with Mikhail Mikhailovich Mordkin. Based in England, she toured around the world from 1914, contributing to the spread of ballet. She gave about 3,600 performances and visited 43 countries. In Japan, she performed at the Imperial Theater in Tokyo, Kobe, and Hiroshima in 1922. Her repertoire included "The Dying Swan," a masterpiece that became synonymous with Pavlova, as well as "California Poppies," "Gavotte," and her own work, "Autumn Leaves."

Pavlova
Pavlova, Eliana

Born: March 22, 1899 in Tiflis (now Tbilisi)
[Died] May 6, 1941. Dancer born in Nanjing, Russia. Born into a White Russian aristocratic family. Fleeing the revolution, she defected to Japan via Shanghai with her sister Nadezhda around 1920. Making use of her experience studying at the St. Petersburg Imperial Dance School, she opened a dance studio in Shichirigahama, Kamakura, and settled there. In the early days of the Japanese ballet world, her studio attracted many talented dancers, producing dancers who would later become leaders, such as Azuma Yusaku, Tachibana Akiko, Hattori Chieko, and Kaiya Yaoko. She also naturalized in 1937 and, under the name Kirishima Eriko, visited war zones to entertain the troops, contributing widely to the ballet world until her death in Nanjing. After her death, Nadezhda took over the studio and continued its activities.

Pavlova
Pavlova, Karolina Karlovna

Born: July 22, 1807, Yaroslavl
Died: December 14, 1893, Dresden, Germany. Russian female writer. Her main work was Razgovor v Kremle (1954).

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Japanese:

[生]1881.2.12. ロシア帝国，サンクトペテルブルグ
[没]1931.1.23. オランダ，ハーグ
ロシアのバレリーナ。フルネーム Anna Pavlovna Pavlova。ロシア帝室舞踊学校に学び，卒業後マリインスキー劇場バレエ団に入り，『ジゼル』の主役で大成功を収め，1906年プリマ・バレリーナになった。 1907年マリインスキー劇場バレエ団を離れ，セルゲイ・パブロビッチ・ディアギレフのバレエ・リュスに参加するなどしてヨーロッパを巡演。その後，男性を中心とするバレエ作品をめぐる対立から退団，ミハイル・ミハイロビッチ・モルドキンと組んで自身のバレエ団を組織し，イギリスを本拠に 1914年から世界各地を巡演，バレエの普及に貢献した。公演回数約 3600回，訪問国は 43ヵ国に上る。日本では 1922年に東京の帝国劇場および神戸，広島で公演。そのレパートリーには，名演技でパブロワの代名詞ともなった『瀕死の白鳥』のほか，『カリフォルニアのケシ』『ガボット』，自作の『秋の木の葉』などがある。

パブロワ
Pavlova， Eliana

[生]1899.3.22. チフリス(現トビリシ)
[没]1941.5.6. 南京
ロシア生れの舞踊家。白系ロシア人貴族の家に生れる。革命を逃れて，妹ナデジダとともに上海経由で 1920年頃日本に亡命。ペテルブルグ帝室舞踊学校で学んだ実績を生かして鎌倉七里ヶ浜で教室を開き，定住した。日本バレエ界の黎明期にあって教室は多くの人材を集め，東勇作，橘秋子，服部智恵子，貝谷八百子ら，のちのリーダーとなる舞踊家を輩出。また，37年帰化し霧島エリ子を名のって，戦地への慰問活動を行い，その途中，南京で客死するまで広くバレエ界に貢献した。没後，ナデジダが教室を受継ぎ，活動を続けた。