How a fragile Russian ballet dancer captivated Wild West Arizona

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Pavlova’s Global Ballet Mission Across Six Continents

Anna Pavlova rose from poverty in Saint Petersburg to dance on the world stage.

Born in 1881, she joined the Imperial Ballet at just ten years old and by 1910 was ready to show America what ballet meant.

For the next two decades, she took her art to places that had never seen a tutu…

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