Tamara Karsavina
Matthew Parris talks to broadcaster and agony aunt Anna Raeburn about the ballerina Tamara Karsavina, the leading female dancer in Diaghilev's Ballet Russes until 1922.
Matthew Parris talks to broadcaster and agony aunt Anna Raeburn about her nomination of the ballerina Tamara Karsavina, who was the leading female dancer in Diaghilev's Ballet Russes until 1922 and whose partnership with Nijinksky created many of ballet's greatest roles. In England she coached Margot Fonteyn and created parts for Frederick Ashton.
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