Tamara karsavina autobiography example
Short autobiography example.
Tamara Karsavina compares Rudolf Nureyev and Vaslav Nijinsky
Rudolf Nureyev defected to the West in 1961 and later that same year he danced with Margot Fonteyn for the first time, and the following year he joined The Royal Ballet.
Tamara karsavina autobiography example
In 1963, the BBC asked the great Tamara Karsavina to comment on the new Russian dancer and compare him with her Ballets Russes partner Vaslav Nijinsky.
Karsavina and Nijinsky had joined Diaghilev’s troupe for its first season in 1909, with Karsavina continuing the collaboration with Diaghilev well into the 1920s.
Karsavina left Russia in 1918, just as the Bolsheviks launched the Red Terror at the beginning of the Russian Civil War.
She was married to English diplomat Henry James Bruce and they moved to London. She became an important force in British ballet helping to found the Royal Academy of Dance in 1920 and the Camargo Society in 1930. When Ninette de Valois created the Vic-Wells Ballet in 1931 (which became the Sadler’s Wells Ballet