Tamara Karsavina
Ballet Dancer, Author
1885 – 1978
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Who was Tamara Karsavina?
Tamara Platonovna Karsavina was a Russian prima ballerina, renowned for her beauty, who was a Principal Artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and later of the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev. After settling in Britain at Hampstead in London she began teaching ballet professionally and became recognised as one of the founders of modern British ballet. She assisted in the establishment of The Royal Ballet, and was a founder member of the Royal Academy of Dance, which is now the world's largest dance-teaching organisation.
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- Born
- Mar 10, 1885
Saint Petersburg - Also known as
- Tamara Platonovna Karsavina
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Henry James Bruce
(1917 - ) - Vasily Moukhin
- Henry James Bruce
- Children
- Nationality
- Russia
- Profession
- Education
- Vaganova Ballet Academy
- Died
- May 26, 1978
Beaconsfield
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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