George Barbier (1882-1932)
1914
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George Barbier (1882-1932)
1914
"Nijinsky et la Karsavina" par Jacqueline Marval (circa 1910) à l'exposition “Le Paris de la Modernité (1905-1925)” du Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, décembre 2023.
Tamara Karsavina in the "Assyrian dance with a torch" from the ballet "Egyptian Nights" by A.S. Arensky, 1908-1909 by Olga Via Flickr: Т.П.Карсавина в «Ассирийском танце с факелом» из балета «Египетские ночи» А.С.Аренского, 1908-1909 youtu.be/kuFwqTmVfeo
Tamara Karsavina passed away on this day (May 26) in 1978. Karsavina performing “The Torch Dance” (1909).
George Barbier
Tamara Karsavina, 1914.
Tamara (Tamar) 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.
Karsavina [ballerina]
André Dunoyer de Ségonzac
1910
Le Carnaval de Schumann: Three Drawings including Fokine and Karsavina
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Vaslav Nijinsky & Tamara Karsavina by Valentine Gross.
Comoedia Illustre
June 5, 1913
Valentine Gross Hugo (1887-1968) was associated with Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes during its early days and later with Jean Cocteau and the Surrealists. She was married to Jean Hugo, great grandson of Victor Hugo. She made a number of portraits of Ballets Russes dancers, including these six sketches showing Vaslav Nijinsky and Tamara Karsavina in Le Carnaval and Le Spectre de la Rose.
The ballet Le Carnaval is based on the music of Robert Schumann, choreographed by Michel Fokine and designed by Leon Bakst. Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes premiered the ballet in Berlin on May 20, 1910, with Lydia Lopokova as Columbine and Vaslav Nijinsky as the Harlequin. The ballet takes place at a masked ball in which Columbine flirts with the Harlequin, and other characters pursue or ridicule one another in light-hearted fun. Philistines crash the party and try unsuccessfully to put a damper on the festivities.
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