23 Amberg, Ballet in America, 5.
For the rest of her career Pavlova made
regular visits to the United States. A souvenir book from Pavlova’s initial tour reveals America’s
inexperience with dance as a performance art at this time. According to the book, Pavlova and her
partner Mikhail Mordkin were “introducing an art new to America, the interpretation of the
ponderous messages of the great composers through the most primitive and yet potent of