Word: karsavina
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...dancers were so expert that they made the most marvelous spins and leaps seem incidental. That was the way of the old Russian Ballet which Serge Diaghilev brought out of St. Petersburg into Europe. He built up its reputation to top-notch not only because he had dancers like Karsavina and Nijinsky and a choreographer like Fokine but also because he had the imagination to commission artists like Bakst, Matisse and Picasso to do his settings, composers like Ravel, Stravinsky and Milhaud to write his music. Diaghilev fathered the Monte Carlo Company. He loved the Riviera, often took his dancers...
Tomorrow evening in Symphony Hall Mme, Karsavina, one of the most versatile danseuses of the present, will give a dance repertoire. She has won high praise throughout Europe...
Last week, Thamar Karsavina, famed Russian dancer, premiere danseuse at the Imperial Ballet at St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), made her first appearance in the U. S. at Carnegie Hall, Manhattan. On the same night, another Russian lady, at another theatre, was filling the Manhattan engagements of what is declared to be her farewell tour. Outside that other theatre was displayed an advertisement familiar to five continents, simply worded-the most arrogant advertisement in the world. It read in large letters ANNA PAVLOWA; in small ones, as if the epithet was too indisputable to require emphasis, "The Incomparable." Karsavina...