Tamara Karsavina

But it was the season's star performers who really captivated Paris: Vaslav Nijinsky with his phenomenal virtuosity, Anna Pavlova with her ethereal delicacy, Tamara Karsavina with her refined, sensuous beauty.

Sergei Diaghilev: first lord of the dance 2010

She studied ballet under the great teacher Enrico Cecchetti (1850 – 1928) and learned by example by watching Nijinsky, Tamara Karsavina and the many famous dancers in the company.

Marie Rambert. 2009

There are artworks that bolster reputations: a Valentin Serov sketch of the ballerina Tamara Karsavina that makes us understand why she was so beloved.

The Ballets Russes at 100 2009

There are artworks that bolster reputations: a Valentin Serov sketch of the ballerina Tamara Karsavina that makes us understand why she was so beloved.

The Ballets Russes at 100 2009

The virtuosity of its dancers, like Anna Pavlova, Tamara Karsavina and Vaslav Nijinsky, was the least of its innovations (standards had slipped in the West).

Europe's Ballet Turning Point 2009

This key Ballets Russes work, whose Paris premiere starred Vaslav Nijinsky, Anna Pavlova, and Tamara Karsavina, was one of the pieces with which Diaghilev took the French capital by storm in 1909, the year before the company's official establishment.

The Guardian World News Luke Jennings 2011

The Ikat-weave costumes, bleeding the colors of Russian folklore across the surface; the tiny pink ballet slipper of the dancer Tamara Karsavina; the sophisticated Parisian exoticism of Paul Poiret; and the disconcerting, Cubist creations by

NYT > Home Page By SUZY MENKES 2010

The pre-World War I seasons of the Ballets Russes and its stars, Nijinsky, Anna Pavlova and Tamara Karsavina, dazzled and thrilled audiences in Paris, London, Berlin and Brussels.

The St. Petersburg Times 2009

[Tamara Karsavina was a renowned St. Petersburg and Ballets Russes ballerina].

Taking the Royal Ballet to New Heights 2008