Karsavina

Tamara Karsavina served as one of the most famous soloists of Diaghilev's legendary Ballet Russes.

At that time the main parts in the play were staged by legendary Anna Pavlova, Tamara Karsavina, Vaclav Nizhinsky and Michail Fokin himself.

During their twenty-year run (the company disbanded in 1929 after Diaghilev's death), the Ballets Russes collaborated closely with dancers, choreographers and visual artists that included George Balanchine (1904-1983), Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950), Tamara Karsavina (1885-1978), Mikhail Fokine (1880-1942), Leonide Massine (1896-1979), Leon Bakst (1866-1944), Georges Braque (1882-1963), and Pablo Picasso (1881-1973).

Eliot (dance, Ohio State U.) relates the lives and careers of five popular female dancers: Giovanna Baccelli, Adele Dumilatre, Tamara Karsavina, Moira Shearer, and Catherine Kerr.

Today her ballet has won world recognition and is thought of as "Pavlova's dance." Shortly after her work with Fokine, Pavlova went to Italy to study with one of the greatest teachers of all time, Enrico Cecchetti, who had also instructed other world-famous ballet dancers--Kchessinska, Karsavina, and Nijinsky.

Formerly known as the Imperial Ballet of the Mariinsky Theatre (named after Czar Alexander II's wife Marie), the Kirov is the great Russian mother company, a matryoshka doll hatching dancer after dancer--an infinity of dancers--from its Imperial School on Theatre Street, a continuum of star pupils that includes the legendary names Anna Pavlova, Tamara Karsavina, Vaslav Nijinsky.

The common, music hall audience had already been exposed to ballet in the form of small, populist troupes built around star dancers such as Pavlova, Genee, Karsavina, and others.

Mot Juste fared best of the British raiders, holding Irish challenger Karsavina for fourth place.

Two Irish hopefuls, Karsavina and Lime Gardens, complete the foreign quintet.

Karsavina runs in the May Hill on Wednesday while I'm looking forward to teaming-up again with Gimcrack winner Rock Of Gibraltar in the Champagne Stakes.

She had Karsavina over three lengths back with Snowflake down the field.

Stable jockey Mick Kinane has chosen Karsavina from the O'Brien sixtet.

Mauclair's favourite among the Russians was Thamar Karsavina, who, while already popular in London and then in Paris, was especially acclaimed for the creation of the Ballerina opposite Nijinski's Petrushka at the Chatelet in June 1911.

They are connected in a seamless fashion, and along the way some of Nijinsky's principal influences are portrayed, including Ballets Russes founder Serge Diaghilev, wife Romola Pulsky and prima ballerina Tamara Karsavina.