Ballet Quote : It was Anna Pavlova, and no one else, who opened the world to ballet.
It was she who did the back-breaking work of pioneering. It was Pavlova
who found and cultivated audiences for contemporary ballet companies.
Her service to ballet is priceless. No other single human being
did more for ballet than she. To all the millions of people
for whom she danced she brought little of herself...what remains of Pavlova today
is not a movement in the art, not a tendency, not even a series of dances.
It is something far less concrete, but possibly more valuable: inspiration.
- Hilda Dutsova