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Dancers on home ground with their tribute to a ballet legend
THE grace of legendary ballerina Anna Pavlova returned to her home of 75 years ago on Thursday when ballet students performed at an exhibition honouring her life.
Ballerinas from West Hampstead School of Dance turned on the charm in Pavlova’s former dance studio at Ivy House, in North End Road, Hampstead.
The house is now the London Jewish Cultural Centre, which has moved there from its former base in Kidderpore Avenue, Hampstead. Its first exhibition focuses on the life of Pavlova, who made her home there from 1912 to her death in 1931. The show features photographs of the ballerina, including one of her with a swan.
Leonard Newman, former curator of the Anna Pavlova Memorial Museum, said: “Pavlova absolutely loved animals and she went down to Dorset to meet a ‘swan whisperer’.
“Swans are notoriously dangerous and bad tempered birds but she learnt to control them absolutely.
“I have no idea what she said to them!”
The exhibition, Anna Pavlova: The Celebration of a Life, continues at 94-96 North End Road until March 23. It is open from 10am-4pm Monday-Thursday and 11am-1pm on Friday.
Pictured: Ren Priestley dances at Pavlova’s home (left); above Julia Wiener and Leonard Newman; below, Anna Pavlova. |
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