biography
| name: |
Karsavina, Tamara (Platonovna)
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pronunciation:
[kah(r)savina]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1885–1978)
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| biography:
| Ballet dancer, born in St Petersburg, NW Russia. She trained at the Imperial Ballet School under Cecchetti, joined the Mariinsky Theatre (1902), and became one of the original members of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris, partnering Nijinsky in ballets by Michel Fokine (1909–14). She married an English diplomat and moved with him to London (1918), where she became vice-president of the Royal Academy of Dancing until 1955. She coached Margot Fonteyn, and wrote several books, including the autobiographical Theatre Street (1930), Ballet Technique (1956), and Classical Ballet (1962). |
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