Tamara Karsavina, the ballerina, lived at 108 Frognal in the 1950s.
His Classical dance training was taken over in part by Isobelle Florence, and by Tamara Karsavina, the famous dance partner of Vaslav Nijinsky.
In the film, A Portrait of Giselle, Karsavina recalls a "wardrobe malfunction": during one performance her shoulder straps fell and she accidentally exposed herself.
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Her niece, Marianna Karsavina, married Ukrainian author and artistic patron Pyotr Suvchinsky.
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).
Tamara Turlacheva | Tamara Karsavina | Tamara | Tamara Milashkina | Tamara de Lempicka | Tamara Oudyn | Tamara Mellon | Tamara Ecclestone | Tamara Volskaya | Tamara Tunie | Tamara Thorne | Tamara Rojo | Tamara Mello | Tamara Gee | Tamara Deutscher | Tamara Anna Cislowska |
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.
Born Mari Scott Henderson in Kensington, London, Bicknell began her career studying with Vera Trefilova in Paris, and later with Tamara Karsavina.