Editing Anna Pavlova (section)

====Touring the world====

After the first Paris season of Ballets Russes, Pavlova left it to form her own company. It performed throughout the world, with a repertory primarily of abridgements of Petipa's works and pieces choreographed specially for her. Going independent was
[[File:Signed drawing of Anna Pavlova by Manuel Rosenberg 1924.jpg|thumb|Signed drawing by [[Manuel Rosenberg]] 1924]]
<blockquote>"a very enterprising and daring act. She toured on her own... for twenty years until her death. She traveled everywhere in the world that travel was possible, and introduced the ballet to millions who had never seen any form of Western dancing."<ref>Agnes de Mille, ''The Book of the Dance'' (1963), p.149 (quote).</ref></blockquote>

Pavlova also performed many 'ethnic' dances, some of which she learned from local teachers during her travels. In addition to the dances of her native Russia, she performed Mexican, Japanese and East Indian dances. Supported by her interest, [[Uday Shankar]], her dance partner in "Krishna Radha" (1923), went on to revive the long-neglected art of the dance in his native India.<ref name=":0"/> She also toured China. 
 
In 1916, she produced a 50-minute adaptation of ''The Sleeping Beauty'' in New York City.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Ballet and Modern Dance|last=Au|first=Susan|publisher=Thames & Hudson world of art|year=2012|isbn=978-0-500-20411-5|location=London, England|pages=116}}</ref> Members of her company were largely English girls with Russianized names.<ref name=":0"/> <!-- When one of her dancers, [[Kathleen Crofton]], was reviewed by the ballet writer [[Cyril Beaumont]], he wrote that "her [[bourrée]]s were like a string of pearls". --> In 1918–1919, her company toured throughout South America, during which time Pavlova exerted an influence on the young American ballerina [[Ruth Page (ballerina)|Ruth Page]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.danceheritage.org/OLDSITE/treasures/page_essay_meglin.pdf|title=''Ruth Page - Early Architect of the American Ballet'' a biographical essay by Joellen A. Meglin on danceheritage.org|access-date=21 October 2019}}</ref><ref>Ruth Page's Obituary in The New York Times 9 April 1991. p. D19.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archives.nypl.org/dan/19658|title=archives.nypl.org -- Ruth Page collection|website=Archives.nypl.org|access-date=14 December 2021}}</ref>

In 1915, she appeared in the film ''[[The Dumb Girl of Portici]]'', in which she played a mute girl betrayed by an aristocrat.<ref name=":0"/>