What were some struggles that Anna Pavlova had in her life?

Question by Hailey L: What were some struggles that Anna Pavlova (famous russian dancer) had in her life?
Im doing a Essay on Anna Pavlova, and i need some struugles or failures she had to deal with.

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Answer by Artemis
You could have simply googled this for better results.
Cut and pasted from Wikipedia, the most questionable of sources:

Pavlova was born two months premature.

Her mother was an impoverished laundress named Lyubov Pavlova. The identity of her father has been open to debate: she later claimed her father (who was of possible Jewish origin) had died when she was two years old.

She was rejected from her first audition with Imperial Ballet School because of her age (8) and her sickly physique.

The young Pavlova’s years at the Imperial Ballet School were difficult, as the technique of classical ballet did not come easily to her. Her extremely arched feet, thin ankles, and long limbs clashed with the small, but strong and compact body in favor for the ballerina at the time. Her fellow students taunted her with such nicknames as The broom and La petite sauvage.

At the height of Petipa’s strict academicism, the public was at first somewhat reserved in their reaction to Pavlova’s unique style, which was an unusual combination of an extraordinary dance gift that paid little heed to academic rules: she frequently performed with bent knees, poor turnout, misplaced port de bras and incorrectly placed tours. Such a style in many ways harkened back to the time of the romantic ballet and the great ballerinas of old.

Her enthusiasm often led her astray—once during a performance as the river Thames in Petipa’s The Pharaoh’s Daughter her energetic double pique turns led her to lose her balance, and she ended up landing in the prompter’s box. Her weak ankles caused her great difficulty during a performance of the variation as the fairy Candide in Petipa’s The Sleeping Beauty, leading the ballerina to revise the fairy’s hops en pointe, much to the surprise of the old Ballet Master. She nevertheless tried to imitate the great virtuosas of the day, particularly Pierina Legnani, Prima ballerina assoluta of the Imperial Theatres. Once during class she attempted Legnani’s fouettés, causing her teacher Pavel Gerdt to fly into a rage. He exclaimed “Leave acrobatics to others … it is positively more than I can bear to see the pressure such steps put on your delicate muscles and the severe arch of your foot. I beg you to never again try to imitate those who are physically stronger than you. You must realize that your daintiness and fragility are your greatest assets. You should always do the kind of dancing which brings out your own rare qualities instead of trying to win praise by mere acrobatic tricks.”

Her feet were extremely rigid, so she strengthened her pointe shoe by adding a piece of hard wood on the soles for support and curving the box of the shoe. At the time, many considered this “cheating”.

And on and on and on it goes. Read her biography

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