Anna Pavlova's Sea travel, The Benefit outweighed the risk

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Photo Credit: Anna Pavlova arriving in South America, 1928 from Anna Pavlova Her Life And Her Art by Keith Money



Anna Pavlova although she traveled around the world she didn't like how she got there which was by ship. She never felt assured that the ship was ok and wouldn't sink. When she read the paper where the Titantic sake her opinions became stronger but even though she didn't like travel by sea after the Titanic sake she still went on the ship. It was more important to her to bring ballet to places that never heard of ballet and bring the beauty of ballet to the world despite her fears of the voyage. 


Photo Credit: Anna Pavlova sailing to Japan on the Empress of Canada, September 1922 from Pavlova Portrait Of A Dancer Presented by Margot Fonteyn


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