Madame Anna Pavlova dancing The Dying Swan. “The Celebrated Russian Dancer.” Pho
Madame Anna Pavlova dancing The Dying Swan. “The Celebrated Russian Dancer.” Photo Schneider. Beagles Postcards.The Dying Swan (originally The Swan) is a ballet choreographed by Mikhail Fokine in 1905 to Camille Saint-Saëns’s cello solo Le Cygne from Le Carnaval des Animaux as a pièce d'occasion for the ballerina Anna Pavlova. The short ballet follows the last moments in the life of a swan, and was first presented in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1905. -- source link
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