She can make everything stop at the apex of a leap: gravity, time, our heart beat, mortality itself
...John Simon//Montague S."The ballerina".-New York, 1980
Miss Pavlova is a unique dancer. No other ballerina has such a swivel-smooth leg extension and can combine this supple acrobatic body with a lyric charm that goes straight to the heart.
...Anna Kisselgoff. New York Times. 1979. 17 August.
I hope to see her become the precedent for something as yet unformed and uncategorizable - what we might at some lucky future timebe able to speak of as representing Bolshoi-ballerina style in the seventies.
...Arlene Croce.New Yorker. 1973. 16 July.
The tone of her dancing - legs, feet, spine, rhythm - is astoudingly taut. Even amid Bolshoi ballet company, it is a constant delight to observe the vibrancy of her feet. Never have I seen leg exensions like hers. No, not as high, as we all know which French ballerina's - but past head-height, nonetheless, and with not the least tilt of a hip. You can see and feel the whole body's energy radiating through them like electricity. Pavlova is a coloratura dancer, but the greatest wonders of her dancing occur in adagio.
...Alastair Macaulay. Financial Times. 1989.27 July.
There was a natural simplicity in her performance which won Pavlova the sympathy of the broad public alongside the appreciation of critics and experts. For some years she became the idol of the crowd, a "superstar". Her arrival was not just an event in ballet life but a general social phenomenon.
...Irina Grusdeva. International Dictionary of Ballet. Detroit, etc., 1993
Pavlova is a stranger to flaunting herself. Her element is movement. The movement of alive, contradictious human feeling that tries not to represent but to express itself.
...Russian seasons. ¹1.1995
Rendering the shred shades of soul's movements Nadezhda Pavlova knows how to fill up even the little gesture. So expressive her head and look during the recurrent pas de bourre in "Les Sylphides" with the only change "en dedans" and "en dehors".
...Bolshoi theater. October.1997
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