#Thamar Karsavina

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E.O. Hoppé, Thamar Karsavina and Adolph Bolm in "Firebird" 1911

Russian ballerina Thamar Karsavina performs with Adolph Bolm in "Firebird". England, 1911. --- Image by © E.O. Hoppé/CORBIS

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Photograph by Waléry of Tamara Karsavina and Adolph Bolm in Thamar, performed by Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, May 1912

source: V&A

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E.O. Hoppé (1878–1972) ~ Tamara Karsavina in the Firebird (Madame Thamar Karasavina, L’Oiseau de Feu), 1911. Photogravure, from the portfolio "Studies from the Russian Ballet" (1913) | src AIC · Art Institute Chicago

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Tamara Karsavina in the Title Role of "Thamar", John Singer Sargent, c. 1911-1912, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886 Size: 59.7 x 45.2 cm (23 1/2 x 17 13/16 in.) Medium: Charcoal heightened with white chalk on white paper

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/307847

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Tamara Karsavina and Adolph Bolm in Thamar (Ballets Russes, 1912)

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Vaslav Nijinsky Masterpost

WIP

1894

amateur Hopak production in Odessa

Imperial Ballet School

supporting parts in classical ballets such as Faust, as a mouse in The Nutcracker, a page in Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake

command performances in front of the Tsar of Paquita, The Nutcracker and The Little Humpbacked Horse

selected by the great choreographer Marius Petipa to dance a principal role in what proved to be the choreographer's last ballet, La Romance d'un Bouton de rose et d'un Papillon. The work was never performed due to the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War.

The 1905 annual student show included a pas de deux from The Persian Market, danced by Nijinsky and Sofia Fedorova. Oboukhov amended the dance to show off Nijinsky's abilities, drawing gasps and then spontaneous applause in the middle of the performance with his first jump.

In 1906, he danced in the Mariinsky production of Mozart's Don Giovanni, in a ballet sequence choreographed by Michel Fokine. He was congratulated by the director of the Imperial Ballet and offered a place in the company although he was a year from graduation. Nijinsky chose to continue his studies. He tried his hand at choreography, with a children's opera, Cinderella, with music by another student, Boris Asafyev. At Christmas, he played the King of the Mice in The Nutcracker. At his graduation performance in April 1907, he partnered Elizaveta Gerdt, in a pas de deux choreographed by Fokine. He was congratulated by prima ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska of the Imperial Ballet, who invited him to partner her. His future career with the Imperial Ballet was guaranteed to begin at the mid-rank level of coryphée, rather than in the corps de ballet. He graduated second in his class, with top marks in dancing, art and music.

Nijinsky spent his summer after graduation rehearsing and then performing at Krasnoe Selo in a makeshift theatre with an audience mainly of army officers. These performances frequently included members of the Imperial family and other nobility, whose support and interest were essential to a career

Imperial Russian Ballet

He appeared with Sedova, Lydia Kyasht and Karsavina. Kchessinska partnered him in La Fille Mal Gardée, where he succeeded in an atypical role for him involving humour and flirtation. Designer Alexandre Benois proposed a ballet based upon Le Pavillon d'Armide, choreographed by Fokine to music by Nikolai Tcherepnin. Nijinsky had a minor role, but it allowed him to show off his technical abilities with leaps and pirouettes. The partnership of Fokine, Benois and Nijinsky was repeated throughout his career. Shortly after, he upstaged his own performance, appearing in the Bluebird pas de deux from the Sleeping Beauty, partnering Lydia Kyasht. The Mariinsky audience was deeply familiar with the piece, but exploded with enthusiasm for his performance and his appearing to fly, an effect he continued to have on audiences with the piece during his career.[18]

Undated

The Pharaoh's Daughter

Eunice

L'Oiseau d'Or

Mariinsky Theatre

1906

Don Giovanni (professional debut) (Anna Pavlova, Nijinsky)

1907

Le Pavillon d'Armide (Pavlova, Nijinsky, Pavel Gerdt)

1908

Le Roi Candaule

1909

1910

Le Talisman

1911

Giselle

Ballets Russes

1909

Le Pavillon d'Armide (Vera Karalli, Nijinsky, Mikhail Mordkin)

Prince Igor

Le Festin (suite of dances)

Les Sylphides (Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris) (Tamara Karsavina, Nijinsky, Pavlova, Alexandra Baldina)

Cléopâtre✅ (cast as the favourite slave of Cleopatra)

1910

Carnaval✅

Schéhérazade✅

Giselle✅

Les Orientales✅

July - L'Oiseau de feu✅

an orchestration of Grieg's Kobold, Op. 71, no. 3 for a charity ball dance

1911

Le Spectre de la rose✅

Narcisse✅

Sadko

Petrushka✅

Swan Lake

London - Royal Opera at Covent Garden - Season of Russian Ballet (22 July 1911) [x]

Le Pavillon d'Armide (as L'Esclave d'Armide) Scheherazade (as The favourite Negro of Zobéide) Les Sylphides (as Mazurka, Valse, and Valse Brillante)

1912

L'après-midi d'un faune✅

Daphnis et Chloé

Le Dieu bleu✅

Thamar

1913

Jeux✅

Le sacre du printemps✅

Tragédie de Salomé

1914

Les Papillons

La légende de Joseph

Le coq d'or

Le rossignol

Midas

2 March 1916 Saison Nijinsky (The Palace Theatre; London, England)

Les Sylphides Le Spectre de la Rose

1915

Soleil de Nuit

1916

14 April 1916 Les Sylphides & Papillon (Metropolitan Opera)✅

Las Meninas

Kikimora

Till Eulenspiegel✅

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Tamara Karsavina in the Title Role of "Thamar", John Singer Sargent, c. 1911-1912, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886 Size: 59.7 x 45.2 cm (23 1/2 x 17 13/16 in.) Medium: Charcoal heightened with white chalk on white paper

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/307847

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1, 2 - Salome.

3 - E.O. Hoppé, Thamar Karsavina and Adolph Bolm in "Firebird" 1911.

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Russian ballet dancers Vera Fokina, and Thamar Karsavina

Ilustração Portugueza, nº472, 1915

Lisbon, 8 March 1915.

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Thamar Karsavina dans son costume créé par Léon Bakst et Aleksandr Golovin pour L'Oiseau de feu des Ballets russes, 1913.

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Russian dancers Thamar Karsavina, Mikail Fokine, and Vera Fokina.

Ilustração Portugueza, nº472, 1915

Lisbon, 8 March 1915.

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Tamara Karsavina in the Title Role of "Thamar", John Singer Sargent, c. 1911-1912, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886 Size: 59.7 x 45.2 cm (23 1/2 x 17 13/16 in.) Medium: Charcoal heightened with white chalk on white paper

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/307847

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Tamara Karsavina in the Title Role of "Thamar", John Singer Sargent, c. 1911-1912, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886 Size: 59.7 x 45.2 cm (23 1/2 x 17 13/16 in.) Medium: Charcoal heightened with white chalk on white paper

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/307847