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5 unusual facts about Tamara Karsavina


Frognal

Tamara Karsavina, the ballerina, lived at 108 Frognal in the 1950s.

Robert Arditti

His Classical dance training was taken over in part by Isobelle Florence, and by Tamara Karsavina, the famous dance partner of Vaslav Nijinsky.

Tamara Karsavina

In the film, A Portrait of Giselle, Karsavina recalls a "wardrobe malfunction": during one performance her shoulder straps fell and she accidentally exposed herself.

Her niece, Marianna Karsavina, married Ukrainian author and artistic patron Pyotr Suvchinsky.

Valentin Serov

Figures in Serov's portraits gradually became more and more graphically refined and economical, particularly during the late period (Vasily Kachalov, 1908, Tamara Karsavina, 1909; numerous figures from Ivan Krylov's fables, 1895–1911).


Lucia Cormani

In 1920, she collaborated with four other great dancers -- Adeline Genée, Tamara Karsavina, Edouard Espinosa, and Phyllis Bedells—to form the Association of Teachers of Operatic Dancing, which was later to become the Royal Academy of Dance.

Mari Bicknell

Born Mari Scott Henderson in Kensington, London, Bicknell began her career studying with Vera Trefilova in Paris, and later with Tamara Karsavina.


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