Tamara Toumanova

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Tamara Toumanova ( Russian Тамара Владимировна Туманова ; born March  2, 1919 in Tyumen , Western Siberia , † May 29, 1996 in Santa Monica ) was a Russian-American ballet dancer and actress.

Career

Toumanova studied from 1925 at Olga Preobrajenska in Paris, debuted in 1927 as a child prodigy in the children's ballet L'Eventail de Jeanne (from Auric , Milhaud , Poulenc and seven other composers) and was 1932 by George Balanchine for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo is committed where she created roles in his ballets Cotillon , Concurrence and Le Bourgeois . Toumanova was one of the three famous "baby ballerinas" (together with Irina Baronova and Tatiana Riabouchinska ). She followed Balanchine in his short-lived company Les Ballets in 1933 and then returned to the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, where she created solo roles in ballets by Léonide Massine such as Union Pacific (1934). When the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo split up (1936), she first joined the successor groups led by Colonel de Basil, and later joined the troupe managed by René Blum. She danced again and again in ballets by Balanchine and Massine, made guest appearances in numerous companies and, as the preferred candidate of the librettist Jean Cocteau, danced the leading role in Serge Lifar's Phèdre (also in 1963 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin ).

Movie

Toumanova played in six Hollywood films between 1944 and 1970, always in dancer roles. Her film debut was in Days of Glory (with Gregory Peck ) in 1944 . In 1953 she played Anna Pavlova in Tonight We Sing , and in 1954 in the musical film Deep in My Heart in the role of the French dancer Gaby Deslys . In 1956 she had a dance scene with Gene Kelly in his dance film Invitation to Dance . In 1966 she played a ballerina in Alfred Hitchcock 's thriller The Torn Curtain . And in 1970 she was the Russian ballerina "Madame Petrova" in Billy Wilder 's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes .

literature

  • Horst Koegler , Helmut Günther : Reclams Ballettlexikon. Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 1984, pp. 455f.
  • TOUMANOVA, Tamara. In: International Dictionary of Ballet. Vol. 2: L-Z. St James Press, 1993, ISBN 1-55862-084-2 , pp. 1427-1430.
  • Jack Anderson: The One and Only: The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo . Dance Horizons, New York 1981.
  • Vicente García-Marquez: The Ballets Russes: Colonel de Basil's Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo 1932–1952. Knopf, New York 1990, ISBN 0-394-52875-1 .
  • Victoria Tennant: Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo. University of Chicago Press, Chicago / London 2014, ISBN 978-0-226-16716-9 .
  • Francis Mason : Tamara Toumanova (1919-1996). In: Ballet Review. 24-3 Fall 1996, pp. 34-62.
  • Tamara Tchinarova: Tamara Toumanova. (Biography). In: Dancing Times. London, July 1997, pp. 889-891, 893.
  • Peter Anastos: A conversation with Tamara Toumanova. In: Ballet review. vol. 11, no 4, Winter 1984, pp. 33-57.

Web links

Commons : Tamara Toumanova  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartmut Regitz, Otto Friedrich Regner, Heinz-Ludwig Schneider: Reclams Ballettführer . 9th, through u. exp. Edition. Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 1985, p. 471.
personal data
SURNAME Toumanova, Tamara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Khassidovitch, Tamara Vladimirovna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-American ballet dancer
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Tyumen
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1996
Place of death Santa Monica