What is Tamara Karsavina?
{{Infobox person | name = Tamara Karsavina | image = Tamara Karsavina as Armide in Pavillon d Armide 1911.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Tamara Karsavina (c. 1912) | birth_name = Tamara Platonovna Karsavina | birth_date = {{Birth date|1885|3|10|df=y}} | birth_place = [[St. Petersburg, Russia|St. Petersburg]], [[Russia]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1978|05|26|1885|3|10|df=y}} | death_place = [[Beaconsfield]], [[Buckinghamshire]], Britain | other_names = | occupation = Ballet dancer | years_active = }} '''Tamara Platonovna Karsavina''' (10 March 1885 – 26 May 1978) was a [[Russia]]n [[ballerina]]. She began her career in the Imperial Russian Ballet and later danced with the Diaghilev's [[Ballets Russes]]. Karsavina created the title role in ''[[The Firebird]]'', the Ballerina in ''[[Petrushka]]'', and The Young Girl in ''[[Le Spectre de la Rose]]''. After she settled in [[Hampstead]], [[London]], she began teaching ballet professionally. She assisted in setting up [[The Royal Ballet]], and was a founding member of the Royal Academy of Dance. Her pupils included Dame [[Alicia Markova]] and Dame [[Margot Fonteyn]]. She wrote two books: the autobiography ''Theatre Street'' (1930) and the dance textbook ''Classical Ballet: the flow of movement'' (1962). [[File:Tamara Karsavina n Fonteyn 'Spectre' 1.jpg|thumb|left|Tamara Karsavina (left) rehearsing [[Margot Fonteyn]] for ''[[Le Spectre de la Rose]]'']] == Other websites == {{Commons category|Tamara Karsavina}} * [http://www.aha.ru/~vladmo/karsavina.html Karsavina: A website with complete information about Karsavina's birth and death.] {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Karsavina, Tamara}} [[Category:1885 births]] [[Category:1978 deaths]] [[Category:Russian autobiographers]] [[Category:Ballets Russes]] [[Category:Russian ballerinas]]