* " Pavlova and Wrists: The Poetry of Bill Manhire ", by Peter Crisp, Islands 24 ( Auckland ), November 1978.

During her dance career, Higginbotham performed as a soloist and / or principal dancer for San Francisco Ballet, Houston Ballet, Mercury Ballet, a Touring Unit of " Tribute to Pavlova ", and as guest artist for national regional ballet companies.

The Pavlova ( food ) | Pavlova is still iconic and hugely popular in Australia.

Anna Pavlova lends her name to a popular variety of American ice-cream.

While lecturing in sociology, from 1963 – 67, at the University of Canterbury, Mitchell wrote a popular book about New Zealand, The Half Gallon Quarter Acre Pavlova Paradise ( 1972 ).

The Half Gallon Quarter Acre Pavlova Paradise was a popular book by Austin Mitchell, published by Whitcombe and Tombs ( Christchurch, 1972 ), with illustrations by Les Gibbard.

* The Half Gallon Quarter Acre Pavlova Paradise, a popular book by Austin Mitchell

ANZAC biscuits and the pavlova are considered by some to be Australian national foods, although while the oldest known named recipe for pavlova is from New Zealand, its often said in the Australian history that the dessert took its name from Anna Pavlova at the Esplanade Hotel in Perth during a tour of the state where she danced " as light as air " in reference to the light meringue.

Her book, The Pavlova Story: A Slice of New Zealand ’ s Culinary History, states that the first Australian pavlova recipe was created in 1935 while an earlier version was penned in 1929 in the rural magazine.

The Pavlova dessert is believed to have been created in honour of the dancer either during or after one of her tours to Australia and New Zealand in the 1920s.

Keith Money, a biographer of Anna Pavlova, wrote that a hotel chef in Wellington, New Zealand, created the dish when Pavlova visited there in 1926 on her world tour.

These drastic changes provided ample subject matter for social analysis, and thirty years later Mitchell wrote Pavlova Paradise Revisited ( 2002 ), after another New Zealand expedition.

At that time, Isadora Duncan, Anna Pavlova, and Loie Fuller were performing in New York City.

The phrase " Half Gallon Quarter Acre Pavlova Paradise " soon became part of the New Zealand vernacular, with the term " quarter acre pavlova paradise " being included in the Dictionary of New Zealand English.

Mitchell revisited New Zealand 30 years after writing his original volume, and motivated by the social changes he observed, he penned a sequel entitled Pavlova Paradise Revisited.

* The Half Gallon Quarter Acre Pavlova Paradise in Te Ara, The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

Pavlova ( food ) | Pavlova, one of the icons in New Zealand cuisine.

This may have influenced his strong symbolism of iconic New Zealand items ( Weetbix, Pavlova, Black singlet, muscly NZ man ).

Pavlova station which connects Karlovo náměstí – and thus also New Town – with Náměstí Míru in Vinohrady.

Born in Indianapolis, Ruth Page studied with Adolph Bolm in New York, and after a tour of South America with the company of Anna Pavlova, she joined Bolm's Ballet Intime.

Pavlova is most recognised for the creation of the role The Dying Swan and, with her own company, became the first ballerina to tour ballet around the world.

Instead audiences became enchanted with Pavlova and her frail, ethereal look, which fitted the role perfectly, particularly in the scene The Kingdom of the Shades.

Pavlova was introduced to audiences in the United States by Max Rabinoff during his time as managing director of the Boston Grand Opera Company from 1914 to 1917 and was featured there with her Russian Ballet Company during that period.

Anna Pavlova was cremated, and her ashes placed in a columbarium at Golders Green Crematorium, where her urn was subsequently adorned with her ballet shoes ( which since then have been stolen ).

The Jarabe Tapatío, known in English as the ' Mexican Hat Dance ', gained popularity outside of Mexico when Pavlova created a staged version in pointe shoes, for which she was showered with hats by her adoring Mexican audiences.

Pavlova is traditionally decorated with a topping of whipped cream and fresh soft fruit such as kiwifruit, passionfruit, and strawberries.

Rubinstein participated in discussions with Elena Pavlova on plans to raise the level of musical education in their homeland ; these bore initial fruit with the founding of the Russian Musical Society ( RMS ) in 1859.

After the first season he remained in Paris to dance with Pavlova.

The turning point came his way as a meeting with legendary Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova.

This was followed the next day with a performance of Hector Berlioz's opera Benvenuto Cellini conducted by Felix Weingartner which included a " dance spectacular " by Anna Pavlova.

She was perhaps most famous for creating the title role in Fokine's The Firebird ( a role originally offered to Anna Pavlova, who could not come to terms with Stravinsky's score ) with Vaslav Nijinsky, her occasional partner.

However Karsavina did have a rivalry with Anna Pavlova.

) is always ready with his enthusiasm, in large type, for Tetrazzini, Caruso, Busoni, Strauss, Puccini, Nikisch, Campanini, Van Rooy, Stravinski, Chaliapine, Debussy, Pavlova, Karsavina, Nijinski, Mengelberg, Steinbach, Schönberg, Savonoff, Paderewski, Elman, and a few other aliens!

( The gate was torn down between 1891-97 with the adjaceny city wall, but during construction work on the Metrostation I. P. Pavlova, remainders of the gate were found as well as some tiles with old provincial coats-of arms as well as fragments of a relief with the Bohemian lion which were saved and today stand in the entry of the Metrostation.

Instead, audiences became enthralled with the frail, long-limbed, ethereal-looking Pavlova, and a star was born.

The list of renowned artists who have performed at the Academy reads like a " who's who " of the past century of performing arts history, with such greats as Marian Anderson, Maria Callas, Enrico Caruso, Aaron Copland, Vladimir Horowitz, Gustav Mahler, Anna Pavlova, Luciano Pavarotti, Itzhak Perlman, Leontyne Price, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Artur Rubinstein, Isaac Stern, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Joan Sutherland, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, among many others.

A newspaper article from January 1927 claims an American ice-cream was named after Pavlova: " Dame Nellie Melba, of course, has found fame apart from her art in the famous sweet composed of peaches and cream, while Mme.

" Her death came in the Hotel Des Indes in The Hague, which displays a wall plaque and has a cigar lounge named the Anna Pavlova Library in her memory.

Pavlova is a meringue-based dessert named after the Russian ballet dancer Anna Pavlova.

* Pavlova — a light and fluffy meringue dessert named after the ballet dancer, Anna Pavlova

Nicknamed " Pav " by Jak, the reporter treats her as his friend and sometimes even in a joking, romantic way, because Pavlova was named after Jak's late wife.