Tamara Karsavina On Dancing in 'Giselle' with Vaslav Nijinsky in 1910
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2013
- Tamara Karsavina (1885-1978), the legendary prima ballerina of the Ballets Russes, was interviewed by Sir Anton Dolin around 1976 about dancing the title role in 'Giselle' in the Ballets Russes' Paris season of 1910. Her partner was Vaslav Nijinsky.
Dolin also spoke with other legendary Giselles, such as Alicia Alonso, Yvette Charivé, Carla Fracci, Tamara Karsavina Natalia Makarova, Dame Alicia Markova, Olga Spessivtzeva and Galina Ulanova, with these interviews all being gathered up into the 1982 Academy Award winning documentary 'A Portrait of Giselle'.
The other unique extended interview was with Olga Spessivtzeva, uploaded on this channel as 'Olga Spessivtzeva - In Conversation With Anton Dolin'.
I must say apart from everything else I love the sound of Tamara Karsavina's voice -- the deep resonant timbre and the beautiful and particular accents of rhythm and intonation.
Enjoy! 
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Так здорово,что можно услышать голоса таких людей...Из прошлого
Fa sognare solo a sentirla a 91 anni figuriamoci vederla ballare !!! evviva , questi artisti sono il tesoro dell'umanità.
This is wonderful and thank you for sharing. Oh, to have danced with Nijinsky!✨🕯🌟💜🌟🕯✨
pleasure! unexpected she says dancing with Dolin was more comfortable than with Nijinsky
Two very best dancers of that time! Must be pure magic!
agreed - oh to have seen them dance!
wonderful to have a video of someone from such a distant memory
Subtitles would have been such a help.
Una leyenda
Thank you so much! I've just read Nijinsky biography by Lucy Moore (wonderful book), and since I'm looking for further information I've just found this video. Very tender.
pleasure :) did you see the whole documentary i uploaded where this came from? ruclips.net/video/--FVqDeLByY/видео.html
Thank you Alex.. she was so beautiful and delicate
i agree completely! intelligent and modest in her opinions too.
She was, wonderful lady.
Thank you for posting this, John Hall. Keep it up.
glad you liked it - i've started uploading more things - hope you'll like them too.
hi xanglat
very happy to hear from you!
yes, it is s wonderful film - and i've very pleased to have it on the channel again.
cheers!
:)
!!!!!!!!!!!!+++ Дуже дякую за відео !!!
pleasure :)
I remember an interview of Karsarvina many years ago in the 70s I think and she demonstrated some arm movements from Les Sylphides and Firebird and although she was quite elderly none of the magic and the facial expression had gone- it was electrifying to watch I am sorry i can not remember who the interviewer was !
hi Siegfried
you might be thinking of the footage i uploaded as 'Tamara Karsavina Talks of Performing in Le Prelude in 'Les Sylphides' with Pavlova and Nijinsky'?
Karsavina demonstrates some porte de bras associate with 'Les Sylphides'
you mention an interviewer so perhaps it was different footage you saw?
cheers
I have looked at the footage and it seems very similar perhaps it was shown on a programme with Melvyn Bragg or someone like that or the South Bank Show
John With your great knowledge of the ballet -I was once coached by an American Dancer who was in the UK having treatment for a back injury at the spinal injury hospital due to an accident on stage in the USA Her name was Toni Clayden She taught me for a while and then returned to the states Have you heard of her we are talking the late 1960s early seventies
Siegfried i wish i had a good knowledge of ballet, and i am not being modest here - to prove the point i had not heard of Toni Clayen, only Pauline Clayden:
www.roh.org.uk/news/former-royal-ballet-dancer-pauline-clayden-turns-90
was there anything else you know about her to e able to search the internet - i've looked around and can find nothing :(
No John and yes I have seen Pauline Clayden mentioned but alas I cannot even remember for definite which company Toni was with as it was in the late 60s and I was only in my teens and quite new to ballet
GREAT!
hi Louis
yes, wonderful to hear this great ballerina chat about such legendary performances.
this is extraordinary
Thankyou
pleasure Katherine - so interesting to here her talk authoritatively about this legendary performance
Wonderful.
isn't it!
Interesting short interview
+Steve Phillips yes, gives a tiny sense of being there.
J - the caption was to indicate they talked about dancing in Paris, though as you say and is discussed in the footage there is talk of the first time in 1910 in Petersburg - i've changed the title to avoid confusion
hi kikcta
isn't it! i have watched it many more times than once - LOL
:)
hi itisitsits
yes, me too! legends chatting don't come my way often!
:)
What did she say in reply when she was asked what Vaslav Nijinsky was like? It was around 1:47
hi GoldenAppleOfDiscord
she says 'he was very docile and much liked by everybody'
cheers
I wonder if there are videos of her dancing act 2 ?
hi thenineteenth centuryballet
after much much googling i suspect what i have uploaded is the extent of what is know to exist
Karsavina appeared in a number of movies, such as 'The Old Wives' Tale', a 1921 British drama film directed by Denison Clift and starring Fay Compton, Florence Turner and Henry Victor. It is based on the 1908 novel The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett.
Cast
Fay Compton - Sophie Barnes
Florence Turner - Constance Barnes
Henry Victor - Gerald
Francis Lister - Cyril Povey
Mary Brough - Mrs Barnes
Joseph R. Tozer - Chirac
Norman Page - Samuel Povey
Drusilla Wills - Maggie
Tamara Karsavina - Dancer
can't find any evidence it has survived
:(
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What did she say about Kschessinska in 4:07?
i've listening many times and sadly can't even guess - i hear 'she (Kschessinska) was very kind to me ... she was [sounds like 'born against' but obviously not that]. :)
Magdalena Berechowska she says ‘when she wasn’t gone against’. It means that Kshessinskaya was very kind to you if you were not confronting her.
She’s so cute
adorable, isn't she
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