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Tamara Platonovna Karsavina (Russian: Тамара Платоновна Карсавина; 9 March 1885 – 26 May 1978) was a Russian prima ballerina, renowned for her beauty, who was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and later of the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev.
May 22, 2024 · Tamara Platonovna Karsavina (born March 9/10, 1885, St. Petersburg, Russia—died May 26, 1978, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, Eng.) was an Anglo-Russian ballerina whose partnership with Vaslav Nijinsky in Michel Fokine’s avant-garde ballets helped to revive interest in ballet in western Europe.
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May 27, 1978 · Tamara Karsavina, one of the greatest ballerinas of her geneilation, died in her sleep at the age of 93 yesterday in the London nursing home where she had lived for the past few years, Reuters...
After her final appearance with the Ballet Rambert early in the 1930s, Tamara Karsavina devoted her time to teaching, writing about her life and ballet techniques, as well as serving as a consultant for revivals of the most famous of Diaghilev's ballets.
May 26, 2015 · This is footage of legendary Diaghilev Era Ballets Russes ballerina Tamara Karsavina practising at home, and then in class in 1924. In class, Karsavina is seen first at the bar, and then...
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She became a major influence in British ballet as vice-president of the Royal Academy of Dancing, and as advisor to the Royal Ballet stagings of Diaghilev ballets as well as The Nutcracker, Giseele and La Fille mal gardée. She also coached Margot Fonteyn in The Firebird and Giselle.
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Tamara Karsavina was associated for many years with Great Britains' Royal Academy of Dancing, from the time it received its charter in 1936. Margot Fonteyn and other ballerinas were coached by Karsavina in many of the classical roles that she had created for the Diaghilev Ballets Russes.
