In our story, Sus-sous at the Ballet, Miss Collette explains about a young dancer named Anna Pavlova. After seeing The Sleeping Beauty ballet at the Mariinsky Theatre, Anna wanted to study ballet very much! She worked quite hard and was accepted into a school called The Imperial Ballet School in Russia. Anna became a very famous ballerina and danced all over the world. Now the school where Anna studied ballet is called the Vaganova Ballet Academy and its students still study on a street called Theatre Street. If you look at the picture below, you will see the street where this famous school is located. Click on the photo to see info about this important historic ballet school.