Movies: Tamara Karsavina

  • 2009
    For Art's Sake: The Story of Ballets Russes

    For Art's Sake: The Story of Ballets Russes (2009)

    For Art's Sake: The Story of Ballets Russes

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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....

    For Art's Sake: The Story of Ballets Russes
  • 1925
    Hanseaten

    Hanseaten (1925)

    Hanseaten

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    Hanseaten
  • 1921
    The Old Wives' Tale

    The Old Wives' Tale (1921)

    The Old Wives' Tale

    0.31921HD

    A woman leaves her husband to run a Paris boarding house, and reunites with her sister after the war....

    The Old Wives' Tale
  • 1925
    Ways to Strength and Beauty

    Ways to Strength and Beauty (1925)

    Ways to Strength and Beauty

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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...

    Ways to Strength and Beauty
  • 1909
    The Torch Dance

    The Torch Dance (1909)

    The Torch Dance

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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 ...

    The Torch Dance