This is for anyone absolutely obsessed with ballet. Anna Pavlova (1881-1931), The Dying Swan, choreography Mikhail Fokine 1905. | Ballet Freak

This footage of Anna Pavlova dancing is identified in the Dance Heritage Collection as ‘The Dumb Girl of Portici’, filmed in 1916 – with which Judy and David concur in comments on my upload 'Anna Pavlova in Lake Side and Stage Set Ballet Fragment': 'We think this could be a sequence from ‘The Dumb Girl of Portici’ - Lois Weber did insert some dancing shots of Pavlova against a black background with a black-velvet clad partner to give invisible support and lifts (Keith Money in Pavlova in Art and