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Posted by Fred 2022-09-25 || || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 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 Sergei 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.

Honestly by modern standards she wasn't that good.

Posted by Woodrow 2022-09-25 00:36|| 2022-09-25 00:36|| Front Page Top

#2 I've never seen the Torch Dance performed. That's a 1909 model movie camera, so so was probably better than it shows.

Posted by Fred 2022-09-25 03:19|| 2022-09-25 03:19|| Front Page Top

#3 She seems tall.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-09-25 06:55|| 2022-09-25 06:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Reminded me of the landlord in The Big Labowski

Posted by BrerRabbit 2022-09-25 09:18|| 2022-09-25 09:18|| Front Page Top

#5 The great Anna Pavlova wouldn’t make the cut now.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-09-25 14:25|| 2022-09-25 14:25|| Front Page Top

#6 But they trained differently in those days. There was an entire vocabulary of poses, of nouns and verbs to make statements that the dancer moved through. Modern ballet is athletic and dynamic, the emotion secondary instead of in your face. Here are excerpts from dances by a mere second tier dancer who will likely never be known as the other two ladies, because there are just so many dancers at this level.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-09-25 15:21|| 2022-09-25 15:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Retired your tutu did you?

Posted by Skidmark 2022-09-25 15:27|| 2022-09-25 15:27|| Front Page Top

#8 :-) I started in ballet, like all little girls who danced, Skidmore, but my legs and feet were not fast enough, nor my bones light enough — jazz and modern are better styles for mesomorphs. And gymnastics, none of which I was devoted enough to excel at. Dilettante, c’est moi!

But I do excel at appreciating the hard work and talent of others. ;-) And any chance to dig in and learn about something, once a target appears. So Fred and Woodrow get the ~~blame~~ credit this time for sending me down that rabbit hole.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-09-25 16:00|| 2022-09-25 16:00|| Front Page Top

#9 Heh. Wasn't going to post, being short a line, but...

Chanzu danced from farthest Cathay
To la France, where it fathered ballet.
Louis's masters of drill
Must've felt such a thrill!
Um... something about danseuses blessé?

Posted by Bugs Darling of the Poles6994 2022-09-25 23:56|| 2022-09-25 23:56|| Front Page Top

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