sorry, I have a question: tamara karsavina was really absoluta? because I was searching in wikipedia the list of ballerinas absolutas and her name is not there. Can you solve my doubt?. Thank you
hi tatyvelas - good to hear from you. i think she was absoluta in the sense of being the great diaghilev ballets russes ballerina rather than being given this title in a long established large company based in a particular location, like the paris opera or the mariinsky theatre, best, nick
@tatyvelas Of course, she was - like Anna Pavlova and Olga Spesivtseva. In Mariinsky she danced the main roles in Swan Lake, Giselle, la Bayadere, Sleeping Beauty, Corsaire... They say that her tecnique was not so strong , but her individuality, unusual east beauty, expression were unforgetable. In Russia of 1900s she was a symbol of Art; poets like Kuzmin, Gumilev,Akhmatova devoted her their rhimes...
hi ggeeooeellee - i think exercising in the garden was just a response to the film cameras rolling - don't expect she did it as a usual thing, don't you think? nick
@deritpeehs - si interesting to see the great ballerina off stage at home - you get the tiniest sense of her as a person, even through the artifice of a film shoot
Isadora, eat your heart out. Ditto all the other weirdos, like Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis. Couldn't make the cut at the academy so they invented "modern" dance. It's the same in visual art: there are millions of "digital photographers" and "painters" who never studied the human form in any depth, could not distinguish between a clavicle and an ankle. But they are "artists".
Il est étonnant que ce genre de temps Voyage est possible ces jours-ci! espérons faire davantage - et de le partager!
curieusement, j'ai également trouvé mes cousins français a récemment - non par l'Internet mais la recherche à la Bibliothèque Nationale - ils avaient échappé à la révolution en allant sur les terres qu'ils avaient dans les Antilles - De retour à Paris dans les années 1830.
sorry, I have a question: tamara karsavina was really absoluta? because I was searching in wikipedia the list of ballerinas absolutas and her name is not there. Can you solve my doubt?. Thank you
tatyvelas 8 months ago
hi tatyvelas - good to hear from you. i think she was absoluta in the sense of being the great diaghilev ballets russes ballerina rather than being given this title in a long established large company based in a particular location, like the paris opera or the mariinsky theatre, best, nick
nickwallacesmith 8 months ago
@nickwallacesmith ok, thank you for your answer
tatyvelas 8 months ago
hi tatyvelas - happy to reply - maybe someone else will have something to say about the issue, nick
nickwallacesmith 8 months ago
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@nickwallacesmith ok, thank you for your answer
tatyvelas 8 months ago
@tatyvelas Of course, she was - like Anna Pavlova and Olga Spesivtseva. In Mariinsky she danced the main roles in Swan Lake, Giselle, la Bayadere, Sleeping Beauty, Corsaire... They say that her tecnique was not so strong , but her individuality, unusual east beauty, expression were unforgetable. In Russia of 1900s she was a symbol of Art; poets like Kuzmin, Gumilev,Akhmatova devoted her their rhimes...
HelgaMaq 7 months ago
it seens me strange to excersise in the garden but i understand that she must was very kind from her face
ggeeooeellee 1 year ago
hi ggeeooeellee - i think exercising in the garden was just a response to the film cameras rolling - don't expect she did it as a usual thing, don't you think? nick
nickwallacesmith 1 year ago
what a privileged life- sort of....
deritpeehs 1 year ago
@deritpeehs - si interesting to see the great ballerina off stage at home - you get the tiniest sense of her as a person, even through the artifice of a film shoot
nickwallacesmith 1 year ago
Isadora, eat your heart out. Ditto all the other weirdos, like Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis. Couldn't make the cut at the academy so they invented "modern" dance. It's the same in visual art: there are millions of "digital photographers" and "painters" who never studied the human form in any depth, could not distinguish between a clavicle and an ankle. But they are "artists".
sillyboydeux 1 year ago
Avec vous, je remonte le temps et suis dans un monde intemporel !
Grisant !
Je retrouve mon grand-père qui a longtemps enseigné le français en Russie !
Cette Russie du temps des Tsars qui m'a toujours fait rêver, car ô combien sublimée et romancée !
M E R C I pour votre regroupement de beautés !
xanglat 1 year ago
Il est étonnant que ce genre de temps Voyage est possible ces jours-ci! espérons faire davantage - et de le partager!
curieusement, j'ai également trouvé mes cousins français a récemment - non par l'Internet mais la recherche à la Bibliothèque Nationale - ils avaient échappé à la révolution en allant sur les terres qu'ils avaient dans les Antilles - De retour à Paris dans les années 1830.
nickwallacesmith 1 year ago
I love her Isadora Duncan Garden Workout!!! 1:53 That will get you ready for anything!!!
Qbendanny 1 year ago
hi Qbendanny
yes, it's a surprisingly modern work-out - and makes me wonder how ballets russes dancers saw the development of modern dance
and you are right - looking at it makes me ready to run a mile, dance a solo, etc
nickwallacesmith 1 year ago
hi TheodoraCarolina
and their dolls houses ... .
nickwallacesmith 2 years ago
Ballerinas and their cats...
TheodoraCarolina 2 years ago
yes, pretty stagy - but interesting to see her move - gives some (tiny) sense of its quality
nickwallacesmith 2 years ago
haha - what a ham she must've been
BernardProfitendieu 2 years ago