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 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]
References
^Wiley, Roland John (1997). The Life and Ballets of Lev Ivanov.
^Wiley, Roland John (2001). A Century of Russian Ballet.
^Clarke, Mary; Crisp, Clement (1992). Ballet: An Illustrated History.