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Dancing into the Unknown - My Life in the Ballets Russes and Beyond (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
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Dancing into the Unknown - My Life in the Ballets Russes and Beyond (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
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Tamara Tchinarova was born in Romania in 1919 and began her dance
training in Paris with emigre ballerinas from the Imperial Russian
Ballet. She danced professionally in Europe with the touring Ballet
Russes companies that emerged in the 1930s after the death of the
entrepreneur Serge Diaghilev, and she went to Australia in 1936
with the Monte Carlo Russian Ballet, returning in 1938 with the
Covent Garden Russian Ballet. In Australia during those first two
tours by the Russian Ballet, she made a strong impression as Action
in Leonide Massine's first symphonic ballet "Les Presages". She was
also admired for her portrayal of Thamar the Georgian Queen in
Michel Fokine's dramatic ballet "Thamar", and was also praised for
her dancing in demi-character roles in ballets such as "Le Beau
Danube". In 1939 at the conclusion of the Covent Garden Russian
Ballet tour, along with a number of her colleagues, Tchinarova
elected to stay in Australia where she met and married the actor
Peter Finch and worked with him on a number of films before leaving
Australia to make her home in London. But Finch had caught the eye
of the glamorous actress Vivien Leigh, wife of Sir Laurence
Olivier, and the love triangle that developed was to have
devastating consequences. This fascinating autobiography highlights
Tamara's incredible life in Romania and her worldwide dancing
career, the tempestuous marriage to Peter Finch and her involvement
in his notorious affair with Leigh, through to her subsequent
career as adviser and interpreter for many Russian ballet
companies.
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