Background
Anna Johansson was the daughter of Christian Johansson, the noted Swedish choreographer, teacher and Balletmaster at the Russian Imperial Ballet.
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:
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 Louisiana Perle (1896)
The female variation of the Grand Pas Classique Hongrois in Raymonda (1898).