Christmas Week Bazaar

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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 scene. Pavlova was dressed in a beautiful rose taffeta cloak with swansdown trim and her bonnet was decorated. Her beauty caught the attention of four suitors  who competed for her affection while  trying to win her over with presents. Pavlova removes her cloak and hat and then wearing a white hooped dress with garlands and forget-me-nots and pink roses. The ballet's music was the "December" waltz from Tchaikovsky's The Seasons.




Photo Credit: Anna Pavlova in Christmas Ballet in the rose taffeta costume from Pavlova Her Life Her Art by Keith Money


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