Anna Pavlova - 'Californian Poppy' (1916) BEST QUALITY

[@tdiazflores]

What a treasure that she was caught on film, and we can still enjoy her beautiful dancing today. You could show me the most skilled dancer today, and I will prefer to watch a dancer that has less technical abilities but actual connection to her emotions! ❤ No wonder audiences of the late 19th and early 20th century were captived by her!

[@JohnRaymondHall]

agreed - technique, what ever you have, is just something to allow you to be expressive - that's only what matters :)

[@189beacon]

Wonderful to see how she made the costume a part of the performance, as if it were a living partner. What a beautiful and expressive piece. 🌺

[@JohnRaymondHall]

yes, makes the performance more complete

[@GrandOldMovies]

Exquisite - her whole body is expressive. When she lifts a leg en avant, the movement is so simple yet lovely, the tears came to my eyes. It's as if she's moved by an inner spirit that transcends the boundaries of flesh.

[@JohnRaymondHall]

yes, every part of her body is expressive!

[@suzannederringer1607]

Lyrical, joyful, simple. Just like these Poppies, which I have grown in my garden.

[@simaraft7373]

My my my... leaves you speechless. Matchless creature!

[@Каранат-и8ж]

Она воистину божественна!!!

[@cynthiafletcher9845]

Thank you for this video which shows Ms Pavlova' s creativity and beautiful upper body. It was truly a pleasure to watch. C❤❤

[@felixdevilliers1]

Pure magic - unrivalled. Her students tell us that these films give no idea of how she really was on the stage.

[@xavierparres7840]

la legendaire anna pavlova ds tte sa splendeur a la grace ineffable

[@carmen9330]

How enchanting...and that ending...💕

[@ЕленаАлексеева-р1с]

Прекрасная русская балерина Анна Павлова, сколько грации , изящества в её движениях. Хрупкая и нежная, как цветок розы.

[@micheladessanti4278]

Meravigliosa. Espressiva, aggraziata, bellissima.

[@Mrturytury1]

What a great artist she was! Lovely!

[@AL45757]

Thank you so much for this upload, John Hall. The quality of this video really makes it possible to understand why Pavlova was regarded as such a great artist. From other clips you've given us, I could believe the legend, but from this one I can feel it as well. Incomparable. A thousand thanks.

[@JohnRaymondHall]

pleasure :)

[@lydiawu8228]

Thank you for sharing such gems of ballet, and providing such excellent commentary! It is beautiful to see such refined artistry and storytelling.

[@nancydionisi9346]

Very interesting, her clothes, I´ve never seen her before. Many thanks John for sharing it!

[@isabella6206]

Beautiful so graceful and a pleasure to watch.

[@Marta44339]

Thank you. It's wonderful and captivating.

[@claudiapinho-memorias]

Encantadora essa eterna bailarina. Muito expressiva na simplicidade da performance

[@louisesmedley-hampson1828]

It is a touching number and I can see why audiences the world over enjoyed it.

[@michaelfitzgerald3467]

That was a long dance and a long time to be on point. That dress! Too funny!

[@aiccorp6001]

I just named my newborn Chihuahua puppy Annabelle Pavlova in honor of her. I was born in New Zealand and our most famous dessert is also named in her honor the Pavlova, funny enough my good friend born in Belarus is adopting Annabelle, so she will know Russian and be our little ballerina puppy.

[@JohnRaymondHall]

an excellent choice! i remember reading it was an unnamed chef at a Wellington hotel, who invented the dessert, during one of her tours there.

[@jayneforryan4830]

How beautiful.

[@deirdreholden8279]

Beautiful 🎉

[@JohnRaymondHall]

very :)

[@isabeldiezlangre9411]

¡ Que amapola tan bella! Su interpretación es hermosisima!

[@JohnRaymondHall]

¿No es así? En particular, la forma en que usa su tutú para expresar el cierre de una flor en la noche.

[@isabeldiezlangre9411]

Fue una bailarina hermosisima y única. Tuvo el arte de velar el arte y Nureyev hizo lo mismo.

[@JohnRaymondHall]

@@isabeldiezlangre9411 sí, la amo Dying Swan, no suave y obviamente hermosa en la forma en que bailó hoy, pero rota y entrecortada en partes que muestran la muerte del cisne, luchando contra él y luego con resignación.

[@isabeldiezlangre9411]

@@JohnRaymondHall La muerte del cisne de Pavlova es una obra de arte... perfección y sentimiento. Se puede llorar viéndola bailar...una maravilla

[@JohnRaymondHall]

@@isabeldiezlangre9411 si, pura emoción en movimiento

[@bravolima7766]

How beautiful and moviing ! 1916 ! that's amazing

[@soulvilleful]

unbelievable...wow...great watch to see the queen of dance

[@JohnRaymondHall]

great to have this footage isn't it

[@soulvilleful]

@@JohnRaymondHall oh yeah...and your channel is pure gold!!

[@JohnRaymondHall]

@@soulvilleful thanks very much - very nice of you to say that - appreciated! :)

[@soulvilleful]

@@JohnRaymondHall shame that there is no nijinsky dancing footage...the only one is the one where he walks the streets of vienna ....right?

[@JohnRaymondHall]

@@soulvilleful yes, only that one in Vienna - which i've posted on YT. such a great shame Diaghilev didn't allow his company and it's stars to be filmed - a great great loss

[@janahcoaching]

I love these videos. If she would be dancing like this today, we would say she had a terrible technique. Almost no turnout... everything evolves.

[@JohnRaymondHall]

yes, Ashton said she had limited technique but what he called 'highlights' - it was something other than technique that made her so extraordinary

[@casteretpollux]

That way Pavlova collapses her head backwards with arms outstretched - surely very difficult to do en pointe?

[@JohnRaymondHall]

yes, very - and so expressive!

[@ritahertzberg5762]

Exquisite.

[@JohnRaymondHall]

indeed!

[@edsonantunes50]

The best!!!!

[@larabethjones3038]

💗💗💗

[@AlokmayDatta]

The eternal ballerina!

[@JohnRaymondHall]

a supreme legend!

[@coolaunt516]

Props to whoever designed and created the costume. It serves much better than the traditional tutu.

[@JohnRaymondHall]

yes, it creates the poppy :)

[@voraciousreader3341]

I think this is something one must get used to in order to find enjoyment in it. Interpretive dance tends to leave me cold, bc each seems to be a connected series of individual movements that seem to be made up by the dancer on the spot, and not truly choreographed. The dancer has in fact choreographed it, but one can easily see the dancers who have that gift and those who don’t, unfortunately.

[@JohnRaymondHall]

i think that is right - for me planning movement expressing music is something that takes time

[@Linda-iw7bk]

very nice. Like Lois Fuller using costumes as part of dance performance

[@Palatinate-o5d]

Amazing how she could dance on these simple pointe shoes that didn't have the support of today's

[@JohnRaymondHall]

exactly

[@essiefowler9775]

Indeed she was wonderful and they didn’t have the shoes they have nowadays

[@christinedidur364]

I know she did the choreography, is this her dancing?

[@kevindonohue2912]

Yes. Very rare footage.

[@christinedidur364]

Kevin Donohue ty

[@КираВерхградская]

это странно ведь у анны павловой было другое телосложение

[@shaherezada28]

Другое? Какое именно?🤔

[@lilidayara3776]

ccda uau

[@susannevollmer2347]

And what did this costume mean? Sorry, but i find it nearly unpossible. Nevertheless the arms are beautiful!

[@JohnRaymondHall]

when she draws the 'petals' of her tutu up towards the end she is showing how flowers close their petals at night. this is a bit tricksy - and it's a pity she did not have better chore for some of her ballets

[@susannevollmer2347]

@@JohnRaymondHall Yes, I agree. At least very sad.

[@blex5579]

i bet the CIA loves this aswell...scnr.

[@JK-sn1zz]

Sorry...was ballet so different 100 years before?I don't get it..to me it looks like an amateur girl is dancing in her living room.did she always dance like that?

[@JohnRaymondHall]

a lot of her ballets were very slight choreographically - it's best to judge her in film of the classics, such as Don Q

[@ГалинаМилевская-г8ь]

Только я с трудом досмотрела?

[@sofias-i9v]

Can we stop pretending that this is in any way good 😁? It is charming nothing and it's funny how you could be a massive inflated superstar back in the day with such a charming nothing. Good for her and her contemporaries. I guess full length ballets during that time were carried on lavish costumes, charisma, acting skills, sexual magnetism and wonderful upper body uninhibition of dancers, but these shorter pieces really show none of those qualities. It's really sad and makes one hope that their (Pavlova, Karsavina etc) best years where drastically better and these recordings are made later when they were out of shape.

[@charmainenawratil6368]

Her arm movements are very ungainly. I don't like her style at all.