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

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.

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.

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.

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

Pavlova is made by beating egg whites ( and sometimes salt ) to a very stiff consistency before folding in caster sugar, white vinegar, cornflour, and sometimes vanilla essence, and slow-baking the mixture, similarly to meringue.

Because the Pavlova is notorious for deflating if exposed to cold air, when cooking is complete it is left in the oven to fully cool down before the oven door is opened.

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

The birth of the modern pointe shoe is often attributed to the early 20th century Russian ballerina, Anna Pavlova, who was one of the most famous and influential dancers of her time.

The Saint Petersburg TV Tower features an observation platform at a height of 191 m. The tower is located at 3 Ulitsa Akademika Pavlova.

The Diaghilev premiere is the most famous, as its soloists were Tamara Karsavina, Vaslav Nijinsky ( as the poet, dreamer, or young man ), Anna Pavlova, and Alexandra Baldina.

A variation Drigo composed for the ballerina Varvara Nikitina in Petipa's version is today the traditional solo danced by the lead ballerina of the famous Paquita Grand Pas Classique, interpolated by Anna Pavlova in 1904.

) 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 centre of Nusle is Náměstí bratři Synků, where trams connect I. P. Pavlova and Charles Square.

Where Pavlova was supremely conscious of her audience and could play upon its emotions as upon an instrument, Ulanova is remote in a world of her own, which we are privileged to penetrate.

Another not to hold the title is the great Anna Pavlova, probably the best known ballerina in history.

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.

While in London Pavlova was influential in the development of British ballet, most notably inspiring the career of Alicia Markova.

Some of the most accomplished dancers to perform this role include Carlotta Grisi ( for whom Théophile Gautier created the role ), Anna Pavlova, Tamara Karsavina, Olga Spessivtseva, Galina Ulanova, Alicia Markova, Eva Evdokimova, as well as Alicia Alonso, Chan Hon Goh, Beryl Goldwyn, Karen Kain, Margot Fonteyn, Natalia Makarova, Sylvie Guillem, Gelsey Kirkland, Irina Kolpakova, Ekaterina Maximova, Natalia Bessmertnova, Carla Fracci, Margaret Barbieri, Altynai Asylmuratova, Alessandra Ferri, Viviana Durante, Diana Vishneva, Svetlana Zakharova, Alina Cojocaru, Nina Ananiashvili, Natalia Osipova, Maria Kochetkova, Galina Mezentseva and Polina Semionova.

Anna Pavlova was one of the most celebrated dancers of her time

La Fille mal gardée proved to be a useful vehicle for the great ballerinas of the old Imperial stage, most notably Olga Preobrajenskaya, Anna Pavlova and Tamara Karsavina.

The first performances of the Russian La Fille mal gardée ( i. e. derived from Petipa and Ivanov's revivals ) in the west were presented by the touring company of the legendary Ballerina Anna Pavlova, one of the most celebrated interpreters of the role of Lise, who while touring London in 1912 performed in an abridged version of the ballet.

One of her most famous miscalculations occurred when, while pregnant in 1902, she coached Anna Pavlova in the role of Nikya in La Bayadère.

The lavish spectacle made an impression on the young Pavlova, and at the age of nine she was taken by her mother to audition for the renowned Imperial Ballet School.

* Ivy House on North End Road, former home of the renowned Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova

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.

Аnna Pavlova costumed for the Pandéros in the Petipa / Glazunov Raymonda, Saint Petersburg, 1910

In the first years of the Ballets Russes Pavlova worked briefly for Sergei Diaghilev.

All her life Pavlova preferred the melodious " musique dansante " of the old maestros such as Cesare Pugni and Ludwig Minkus, and cared little for anything else which strayed from the salon-style ballet music of the 19th century.

After leaving Russia, Pavlova moved to London, England, settling, in 1912, at the Ivy House on North End Road, Golders Green, north of Hampstead Heath, where she lived for the rest of her life.

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.

File: The Butterfly costume design for Anna Pavlova by L. Bakst ( 1913 ). jpg | The Butterfly ( Costume Design by Leon Bakst for Anna Pavlova ), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

One of the many versions of the cause for his decision to change his surname from Helpman to Helpmann, was that Pavlova, a devotee of numerology, suggested that he should change his surname to avoid his name Robert Helpman having 13 letters.

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.

Some of his early works include the ballet Acis and Galatea ( 1905 ) and The Dying Swan ( 1907 ), which was a solo dance for Anna Pavlova, choreographed to the music of Le Cygne.

She made her stage debut aged 10, performing the role of Salome in the pantomime Dick Whittington and His Cat, for which she was billed as Little Alicia, the child Pavlova.

In 1904 Petipa coached the great Anna Pavlova for her performance in Giselle and her début in Paquita.

* Pavlova — A Woman for All Time ( 1985 )

... aka Pavlova: A Woman for All Time

It was from Petipa himself that Pavlova learned the title role in Paquita, Princess Aspicia in The Pharaoh's Daughter, Queen Nisia in Le Roi Candaule, and Giselle.

When the ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska was pregnant in 1901, she coached Pavlova in the role of Nikya in La Bayadère.

Kschessinska, not wanting to be upstaged, was certain Pavlova would fail in the role, as she was considered technically inferior because of her small ankles and lithe legs.

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.