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I Dreamed I Was a Ballerina
By Pavlova, Anna & Degas, Edgar
- ISBN
- 978-0-68984-676-2
- Publisher
- New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : c2001.
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Reviewed on November 1, 2001
K-Gr 2 The story of the famous early-20th-century ballerina, drawn from Pavlova's memoir, Pages of My Life (Michel de Brunoff, 1922; o.p.). Although very poor, her widowed mother was able to take young Anna to a performance of Sleeping Beauty. It had a profound effect upon the child and her dream from that moment on was to become a ballerina and perform in that same theater-the Mariinsky in St. Petersburg. The language of the text is highly stylized, formal, and spare, albeit appropriate both for ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
