Russian Ballet Icons Gala: Anna Pavlova On Sunday 4 March 2012the Russian Ballet Icons Gala, will be dedicated to Anna Pavlova and 100 years of the establishment of Anna Pavlova House in London, will take plac e at the London Coliseum. Part of the Russian Ballet Icons series, the ga la evening opens the Pavlova 2012 Festival marking the centenary of Anna Pa vlova making her home in London at Ivy House. The evening will present a u nique opportunity to see several pieces from Pavlova’s repertoire such as P aquita, The Pharoah’s Daughter, Le Roi Candaule, Giselle, La Bayadére,The Sleeping Beauty, Marcobomba, and including rarely performed pieces E gyptian Nights and Dragon Flight, which will be restored especially for th is gala, as well as contemporary dedications to this great icon of ballet. The programme will be presented by dancers from world leading companies:The Bolshoi and Mariinsky theatres, the Royal Ballet, the English Nation al Ballet and the Grand Paris Ballet, the Berlin and the Bavarian Staatsop er, American Ballet Theatre and Milan's La Scala including: Maxim Beloserk ovsky, Alessio Carbone, Alina Cojocaru, Marlon Dino, Irina Dvorovenko,Dorothée Gilbert, Daria Klimentova, Johan Kobborg, Lucia Lacarra, Vlad islav Lantratov, Vyacheslav Lopatin, Ulyana Lopatkina, David Makhateli,Vadim Muntagirov, Giuseppe Picone, Sergei Polunin, Tamara Rojo, Iana S alenko, Marat Shemiunov, Olga Smirnova, Alina Somova, Natalia Somova, Anastasia Stashkevich, Marian Walter, Svetlana Zakharova and Igor Zelensk y and others under the artistic direction of Wayne Eagling (English Nationa l Ballet’s artistic director), with accompaniment by the orchestra of the English National Ballet under the direction of Valeriy Ovsyannikov. Bookin g: http://www.eno.org