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  Photo Credit: Anna Pavlova seated in center at a Pavlova Ballet Company Holiday Party from Pavlova Portrait of a Dancer Presented by Margot Fonteyn Pavlova and her husband Dandre hosted a New Year's Eve Party for the Pavlova Ballet Company at an apartment. During the party, Anna Pavlova announced the company would be going on their Latin American Tour. Pavlova made it crystal clear to everyone at the party that they would represent Russian Ballet, so they needed to work their hardest to convey Russian Ballet well to a new audience that had never experienced ballet before.  The company celebrated with cheers and drinks, specifically vodka. Pavlova handed everyone at the party a present. When she gave gifts, they were always luxurious, and the sentimental gift from Pavlova probably really surprised the guests, but that is how she was; when she gave gifts, she went with extravagant gifts. Anna Pavlova gifted people on New Year's Eve because she was still going by the old calenda

  Photo Credit: Anna Pavlova with Volinine and other cavaliers, Berlin, 1926 from Pavlova Her Life Her Art by Keith Money In New York City at the Seventy- first Regiment Armory there was an annual Christmas Week Bazaar and in the year 1916 America was in love with all things Russian because of this fascination with Russia it became the  theme of the Christmas Week Bazaar. All proceeds from the event were to go to Russia's   sick and wounded.  The event had  was a Russian Tea Garden, Balaika orchestra and various dance competitions that Anna Pavlova judged. Pavlova would also dance on the stage for this event if she wasn't needed for performances at the Hippodrome.   Anna Pavlova and her partner Edward de Kurylo and their group of dancers presented a short ballet at the Christmas Week Bazaar and called the Ballet Christmas. The Ballet's opening scene was a Christmas party and Anna Pavlova played the leading lady role in the ballet and Volinine played her escort in the party

Photo Credit: Anna Pavlova on her World Ballet Tour with her company here posing in Alexandria, Egypt 1923- From Anna Pavlova Her Life And Art By Keith Money The fashion world and press regarded Anna Pavlova as having excellent fashion sense. She was ahead of her time in how she fashioned her outfits. Fashion designers even said she always looked timeless. She never wore many accessories and instead focused on simplicity. Her clothes were still modern and relaxed but were timeless.  Photo Credit: Anna Pavlova Fashion 1908-1914 from Anna Pavlova Her Life Her Art By Keith Money Pavlova was a fan of hats and had many she had collected. The Secessionist painter Shuster-Woldan painted a portrait of Anna Pavlova wearing one of her hats that had a large taffeta bow. Photo Credit: Anna Pavlova wearing her hat with the taffeta bow from Anna Pavlova Her Life Her Art By Keith Money Anna Pavlova also wore clothing from the luxury London Department Store Liberty, which you can still shop at today.

  Photo Credit: Anna Pavlova with Poppy on Christmas in Puerto Rico in 1917 from Anna Pavlova Her Life And Art by Keith Money Anna Pavlova, an animal lover from a very young age, had many pets as an adult, Some being swans, different birds, cats, and dogs. She was especially fond of of bulldog breeds. She even brought to Russia a bulldog that was not native to Russia but from England that she loved. Anna Pavlova had throughout her life many dogs, some bulldog breeds and others different. She loved all of them, and there are so many photos of her with her dogs documented. Photo Credit: Anna Pavlova with her two bulldogs from Anna Pavlova Her Life And Art by Keith Money Photo Credit: Anna Pavlova reading with her  bulldog on sofa from Anna Pavlova Her Life And Art by Keith Money Photo Credit: Anna Pavlova with her one of her bulldogs surrounded by tutus and pointe shoes from Anna Pavlova Her Life And Art by Keith Money Photo: Credit Anna Pavlova with her Boston Terrier Poppy  from Anna P

  Photo Credit: Anna Pavlova Her Life By Keith Money- Anna Pavlova with Clustine and some of the  pupils selected for her Free Ballet School at the Hippodrome. Before Anna Pavlova started teaching ballet classes at her home, she had her own Free Ballet School but admitted you had to pass an audition, but what was the audition process? There were over twelve hundred applicants for Pavlova's School.  Pavlova and her colleagues Clustine, a dance instructor, and Charles Dillingham were managing the auditions. Dillingham allowed Anna Pavlova to use his ballet room at the Hippodrome in New York, and this was where Pavlova would have her classes. The school was only accepting those from the U.S., specifically from the New York Area, which left them with eight hundred applicants. Still, there were too many applicants to take, so Pavlova created auditions. Anna Pavlova decided a group of students sixteen and over would be the requirement, and Pavlova would limit the class to a size of fifty