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DIED. Tamara Karsavina, 93, regal Russian ballerina who danced with the legendary Vaslav Nijinsky; in London. Karsavina first danced with the Maryinsky (now the Kirov) Ballet, then joined Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes for their first Paris season in 1909. A dancer of great beauty who made her every gesture expressive, she was often contrasted with her more classical colleague, Anna Pavlova. After the Russian Revolution she fled to England, where she became the country's best-loved dancer, appearing as a guest artist through the 1920s. She later worked with English Choreographer Frederick Ashton, advised Prima Ballerina...
...scale work, Daphnis and Chloë. The choice was an odd one. Daphnis and Chloë has not been a lucky ballet. The 1912 Paris première by Diaghilev's Ballet Russe suffered from underrehearsal and, according to Michel Fokine, who choreographed the work, indifferent dancing by Karsavina and Nijinsky. No one faulted the dancing of Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes in the 1951 Sadler's Wells revival, but the public was cool to Choreographer Frederick Ashton's jarring transfer of the mythic lovers from the 3rd century B.C. to modern Greece. This spring...
...most delightful works are sets and costumes designed for Manuel de Falla's The Three-Cornered Hat, a merry Spanish folk tale replete with flamenco dancers. For the Toulouse Festival, the Paris Opéra reproduced the 1919 costumes, including a coquettish gown that the original first ballerina, Karsavina, deemed "a supreme masterpiece in pink silk and black lace," and a Spanish troupe danced the ballet...
...chilling play, they gave one of modern ballet's truly electric performances-taut, technically polished, tingling with passion. The following evening, in the more elegant climate of Swan Lake, they were equally convincing, and had critics groping for comparisons with such a legendary dancing pair as Nijinsky and Karsavina...
...choreography-originally by Jean Bercher (1742-1806), known professionally as Dauberval and regarded as the father of comic ballet-Innovator Ashton was almost completely on his own. The only guide he had to the original work was the hazy memory of an oldtime (75) ballerina, Russian-born Tamara Karsavina, who danced the role of Lise in czarist St. Petersburg...