Movies: Tamara Karsavina
- 1925
Ways to Strength and Beauty (1925)
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The perfect body as an object of cult worship. Based on the mass sports and body worship movement of the 1920s, the film propagates physical training and shows in stylized documentary scenes aspects of physical hygiene, gymnastics, sports and dancing...
- 1921
The Old Wives' Tale (1921)
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A woman leaves her husband to run a Paris boarding house, and reunites with her sister after the war....
- 2009
For Art's Sake: The Story of Ballets Russes (2009)
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In the centenary year since the founding of the Ballets Russe, this documentary looks back at Sergei Diaghilev and the company he created, what they did and the influence they had, even a 100 years later....
- 1909
The Torch Dance (1909)
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A newly discovered film showing Tamara Karsavina dancing Mikhail Fokine’s ‘La Danse du Flambeau’ (‘The Torch Dance’). This performance was filmed in 1909. Tamara Karsavina’s shoes are not reinforced at the tip like today’s pointe shoes; she may have ...
- 1925
Hanseaten (1925)
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