BALLETS RUSSES.

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Collection of photographs. A collection of photographs of Ballets Russes dancers, including images of the principal dancer and choreographer Adolph Bolm, his daughter, Kyra Alanova, the prima ballerina Tamara Karsavina, and a single photo of Nijinsky as Albrecht in Giselle. Fifteen were taken by Emil Otto Hoppé (1878-1972), one of the most sought-after photographers of the 1920s and 1930s. He photographed the Ballets Russes from 1911 to 1923; these images are predominantly from their only American tours in 1916 and 1917. Karsavina appears in five and Bolm in twelve, including two images of them together in costume for Le Pavillon d'Armide, one of them together in Thamar, and two in L'Oiseau de Feu.Adolph Bolm (1884-1951) was a pioneer of ballet in the United States. From 1909 to 1916 he was a principal dancer and choreographer for the Ballets Russes. During their American tour, Bolm injured himself while dancing Thamar. He stayed in the USA and quickly established himself as a coveted choreographer. There were no American ballet companies and dancers performed with opera companies until Bolm established Chicago Allied Arts, the first repertory ballet company in the USA. He later founded the San Francisco Opera Ballet and was one of five choreographers involved in the 1940 founding season for New York's Ballet Theatre. Tamara Karsavina (1885-1978) was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet before joining Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. She is perhaps most famous for cre

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