* Pavlova ( food ), a type of meringue dessert

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 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

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

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.

Pavlova is perhaps most renowned for creating the role of The Dying Swan, a solo choreographed for her by Michel Fokine.

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 considered Pavlova to be technically weak and believed that the other ballerina could not upstage her.

According to Margot Fonteyn's biography, Pavlova did not like the way her invention looked in photographs, so she would remove it or have the photographs altered so that it appeared she was using a normal pointe shoe.

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 ).

Famous people whose cremations have taken place include Kingsley Amis, Stanley Baldwin, Marc Bolan ( born, Mark Feld ), Neville Chamberlain, T. S. Eliot, Sigmund Freud, Hugh Gaitskell, John Inman, Keith Moon, Ivor Novello, Anna Pavlova, Frank Rutter, Peter Sellers, Ghisha Tuckman ( born, Ghisha Koenig ) Amy Winehouse, Michael Foot and Wendy Richard.

Ginger Rogers, Anna Pavlova and John Philip Sousa are some of the famous faces to have graced the theater's stage.

Other notable performers to have graced its stage include the famous Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova.

Here he danced at a few charity performances that his father had organized in London, and one such occasion, noted Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova happened to be present, this was to have lasting impact on his career.

However Karsavina did have a rivalry with Anna Pavlova.

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

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.

When the Victoria Palace Theatre in London, England, opened in 1911, a gilded statue of Pavlova had been installed above the cupola of the theatre.

At the opening in 1911, a gilded statue of ballerina Anna Pavlova had been installed above the cupola of the theatre.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It became internationally famous after Russian dancer Anna Pavlova added it to her permanent repertoire after visiting Mexico in 1919.

: had dreamed of being a famous dancer, in the mold of Anna Pavlova and Nijinski, only to be told by her teacher that she would make a good jitterbug.

Ulanova was a great actress as well as dancer, and when she was finally allowed to tour abroad at the age of 46, enraptured British papers wrote that " Galina Ulanova in London knew the greatest triumph of any individual dancer since Anna Pavlova ".

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.

An example of this would be at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games to Anna Pavlova during the Vault event final on her second vault.

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.

Pavlov's House ( dom Pavlova ) was a fortified apartment building during the Battle of Stalingrad from 27 September to 25 November 1942.

In the film A Portrait of Giselle Karsavina recalls a " wardrobe malfunction ": during one performance her shoulder straps fell and she accidentally exposed herself, and Pavlova reduced an embarrassed Karsavina to tears.

( 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.

After the defeat at Kiev, the detachment saw action at Pavlova during the withdrawal.