Anna Johansson (dancer)
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Anna Johannson | |
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 Anna Johannson in the Grand pas des étoiles from Petipa's L'ordre du roi | |
| Born | 1860 |
| Died | 1917 Petrograd |
Anna Christianovna Johansson (Russian: Анна Христиановна Иогансон) (1860–1917), was a Russian Empire ballerina who danced with the St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet.
Life and career
[edit]Anna Johansson was the daughter of Christian Johansson, the noted Swedish choreographer, teacher and Balletmaster at the Russian Imperial Ballet. She studied ballet with her father and rose to a position as a noted soloist in the Imperial Ballet at the Maryinsky Theatre.
She created many of the most famous soloist roles in the Petipa/Ivanov repertoire. These roles include the following:[1][2]
- The Fairy Canari and the Diamond Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty (1890)
- The leading soloist of the Waltz of the Flowers in The Nutcracker (1892)
- The Fairy Godmother in Cinderella (1893)
- Aurora, the Goddess of the Dawn in The Awakening of Flora (1894)
- The Black Pearl in La Perle (1896)
- The female variation of the Grand Pas Classique Hongrois in Raymonda (1898)
After retiring from the stage, following her father's footsteps, she became a celebrated teacher of the classe de perfectionnement at the Imperial Ballet School until her death in 1917.[3]