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Anna Pavlova alle Giornate di Pordenone The four 2009

Continuing with the program of the Pordenone Silent Film Days 2009, one of the sections commemorate the centenary of the company's first tour of the Ballets Russes, directed by Sergei Diaghilev.
films of the section are: La Danse du Flambeau (Les Films du Lion, FR 1909), with Tamara Karsavina; Pas de Deux et Suns (Les Films du Lion, FR 1909), with Alexandra Baldini, Theodore Kosloff, and 18 minutes of footage of Anna Pavlova (six short dances) in the 1924, during a visit on the set of Thief of Bagdad, starring Douglas Fairbanks. For more details, refer to the festival program .

(Errata: The two movies are presented in Pordenone Compagnie des Cinématographes The Lion, Jacques de Froberville, and Jules)

And now, the first part "vintage" in 1929 to Anna Pavlova, a small premise.

Dear Bryony Dixon, curator of the National Film and Television Archive, British Film Institute, London, and David Robinson, director of the Pordenone Silent Film Days,

I do not have the pleasure to personally meet Mrs. Dixon (I saw last year in Pordenone, but not I who could introduce me), so I did not know how to approach her. I just wanted to say thanks for the wonderful movies that I could see Anna Pavlova (twice) in the Days of Pordenone last year.

always come back to review Pavlova, two, three or four times ... this year, so I would ask you, as a curator at the National Film and Television Archive, and David Robinson, director of the Pordenone Silent Film Days, the chance to see The Dumb Girl of Portici , the 1916 Universal film, starring Anna Pavlova. I think a copy, the only surviving copy is at the National Film and Television Archive.

guess it is too late for this edition of the day, perhaps in the edition of 2010.

Thanks in advance to you both. Closed

the premise, Anna Pavlova, Corriere della Sera, Milan 1929:

"Three hundred thousand miles traveling together, tremilaseicentocinquanta representations and evidence more than two thousand sixteen years together ... Of course, should know well his Pavlova, Theodore Stier, director Music for many years and many miles of the Diva. But he does not claim to space in the genius of the dancer, there is a library, now showing his art, apart from the consecration of the public? So Theodore Stier ( Pavlova Around the World With , Hurst and Blackett, London) turns to illuminate the "its different but infinitely charming personality and to report some curious and amusing incidents occurred from time to time in our journey together. For although much has been written of the dancer, little has been published for private life of an artist, the energy of which is as amazing as his genius for friendship is remarkable. "A 'Comrade' genuine, the Pavlova. E Stier had the opportunity to meet you. Dandri, her husband was almost always absent on the business of the Company, or in Russia, where he had his base of art, or some stage before preparing the 'tour'. The artists, almost exclusively from Russian rule, did not speak unless their language, and Stier, very good linguist, as well as conduct the orchestra, was to be the staff officer, the interpreter, the herald of housing throughout the company. And the knight and the cicerone of the Pavlova. In full confidence:
"My father died when I was two years - tells the Pavlova to Stier, - and for the rest of my childhood days and nights My mother's were spent in a dark endless struggle against poverty. "

In eight years, returning home from the theater, where he saw The Sleeping Beauty , decides:" Now I know, Mom, what will I do. I'll be a dancer. And it maintains its decision with a tenacity that wins of all opposition, every obstacle, with the tenacity that makes her triumph in Stockholm, Paris, Berlin. London did not notice her. At times, this huge metropolis that pushes so far its radiance is an abysmal ignorance about what happens elsewhere. It 'a fault and its strength.
agent in London, suddenly: - Well, Miss, what can I do for you?
- I are Madame Pavlova.
- Oh, gosh ... And what do you do?
Pavlova (patiently): - I'm Anna Pavlova.
- This does not mean anything in my young life. What do you do? Acting, singing, dancing? Pavlova (with even greater patience): - dance.
Agent (with animation) - Dance? Well, come tomorrow morning about eleven o'clock and bring your jerseys.
The cold heart of stone from London to the first contact. And now, the Pavlova is never more at home as in London, in the lovely Ivy Home, Hampstead was Turner, choreographer of light.
"In my innocence I imagined that I am directing a dance, the dancer's feet would follow the music according to my interpretation. Dead wrong. The dancer's head and eyes of the director are "glued" to his feet. Like many prominent directors have discovered with their regret, any other method leads to a lack of synchronism is disastrous for the artist. " What
Stier leads to an obvious association of ideas, to tell of its friction with the Pavlova. "To be frank, sometimes the Pavlova was not as dazzling as it could have on other occasions since, like all her sisters and all his brothers in art, it is extremely sensitive and prone impulsivity."

Memo to the generosity of impulse Pavlova gets its first misconception con Stier. A Nuova Orléans, la Compagnia offre alla danzatrice una coppa per il suo compleanno, una di quelle che gli anglosassoni chiamano loving cups, o d'amore o d'amicizia. Ed ella fa organizzare dal maestro un grande pic-nic al quale tutta la Compagnia ha da partecipare e la coppa d'amore da essere inaugurata. E Stier dimentica la raccomandazione della Pavlova che vi sia champagne: vi sono vini leggeri e liquori, ma non champagne. Alla rivelazione, la Pavlova guarda Stier con l'espressione di chi veda tutto il suo mondo crollare alle fondamenta. Da quel momento, la scampagnata fu irrimediabilmente rovinata, il pic-nic un orribile insuccesso. Ritorno tristissimo: appena in automobile col maestro, la Pavlova scoppia in lacrime. Breve, penosissimo silenzio by the teacher who finally try a consolation
- After all, who ever the world wants to drink champagne at 4 pm?
It turns shooting at him with an aversion infinite
- You say to absolve you from your laziness. - And ordered the chauffeur to stop. - Please, not another word. Get off of my car immediately.
The teacher understands that there is ribatter and word gets out and returns to town on "Coach" of drivers, the last of the parade. Two nights later he knocks on the dressing room of the master. It is the Pavlova with arms outstretched:
- A hug, a teacher, and make peace.
goodness, sincerity, inability to take the villains to resentment if not, honesty of thought and expression is unequaled.

generosity and fraternal solicitude to the comrades in need of art. Someone took advantage beyond the measure of honesty. The sake of art that comes with a hard right and inflexibility towards others and even more from it. A tension that requires rest and distraction: getting lead slowly across the countryside, absorbing, in all their beauty, the colors of the fields and hedges and flowers and shapes and movement of clouds, because she is amazingly sensitive to color and to form. Interesting and surprising: not very fond of books, prefer art galleries, museums, old churches. But the favorite pastime is modeling clay. "The world, earning his greatest dancer, a sculptor has lost a little less. "This aversion
stronger? That of the importunate who want to impose all the costs of their presence. In Montecatini two ladies decided to make his acquaintance, who persecute her tirelessly. It's likely that the Anglo-Saxons picturesquely called "hunters of lions (or lionesses)" One evening at the theater in a while, knock on the door of the stage of Pavlova (with Stier) and enter smiling, "Sorry to disturb, but we could not leave without shaking Montecatini hand the famous Pavlova. "
The Pavlova halyard with a mask of ice and a cold look even more:
- My name is Madame Dandri. I do not know the lady of whom they speak. I do not want the honor to meet them. Favor to get out of my box. In London a
enriched vulgar, foretells that friends will dance the Pavlova with a receipt. And then deal with you: the money? Five hundred pounds. The enriched protest: five hundred pounds is a lot for five or six minutes of the show.
The Pavlova is inflexible. And the enhanced yields spitefully: - As I told my guests that you will dance, nothing if I do not bend on terms that I find exorbitant. And
Pavlova, generously
- If you do not insist because I dine with your friends, reduce the price to 300 pounds ...
money I always go well, there is an asylum of orphans in Paris, who thinks the Pavlova.

One day in Caracas, the famous President Gomez gives it a jewel on the casket of red velvet, as Anna Pavlova is traced with gold coins $ 25 each. And thanks
Pavlova General and adds air monellesca:
- This is the first time in my life that I regret to call Anna Pavlova ...
Gomez's face becomes a question.
- I'd like at this moment - the artist continues, - Anastasia Edvardova Karavanskaia to call because my orphans would be the richest ...
strange people, strange countries go in the book: Commissioner Mexican ensures timeliness of theater (in Mexico are angry for this kind of punctuality), driving a huge revolver under the nose of directors, the Japanese orchestra which took four hours to perform the overture to Rosamunde Schubert (seven minutes of music), Singapore, Manila, Rangoon, Calcutta, Egypt, Spain, Belgium. And the Kaiser's deep voice that breaks the silence of a formal representation of the Court: "Wunderful! Wunderful! Bravo! Bravo! And the imprint of her lips scarlet Pavlova's glove on the Kaiserin immaculate: a mark of blood. In May 1914. The mayor of the small town in Kentucky, going to the station to receive the distinguished guest:
- I say, madam, you play cards?
- Sometimes ...
The mayor, rat like lightning, he rummages in his pocket, hunting two decks in the hands of astonished Pavlova:
"I sell papers ... '
And later, to the hotel, Stier: - I say, what is the lady? Sing or play?
E Stier shocked to explain that it was the world-renowned dancer. And the mayor
- Maybe dancing for three hours straight?
A funny book. E Stier? Stier is a bit 'in a bit 'off, but there is always tutt'ordine and method and composure and fidelity and devotion, but in an atmosphere of subtle humor, with some spark of mischief ...
Oreste Rizzini