Saturday, August 16, 2008

Tamara Karsavina Exercises at the Mariinsky Theatre c1920


Finally I managed to locate the footage of Tamara Karsavina doing exercises at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersberg c1920.

Karsavina in 'Les Papillions'


Karsavina in 'Cleopatre'


Karsavina in 'Firebird'

There is so little film of any of the dancers from the Serge Diaghilev era of the 'Ballets Russes'.



Just fragments of footage of Anna Pavlova, Olga Spessitzseva, Anton Dolin, Alicia Markova, Alexand Alexandra Danilova and a tiny handful of others.

1 comment:

hermitknitter said...

This unfortunately could not have been at the Maryinsky. Tamara Karsavina left Russia in 1918 and never went back.