Tamara Karsavina Talks of Performing in Le Prelude in ’Les Sylphides’ with Pavlova and Nijinsky

Tamara Karsavina, the great Ballets Russes Prima Ballerina, talks to camera about dancing at the Paris premier of ’Les Sylphides’ on 2 June 1909 at Théâtre du Châtelet. She appeared with Anna Pavlova, Alexandra Baldina and Vaslav Nijinsky in this plotless ballet, a ’romantic reverie’. ’Les Sylphides’ was choreographed by Mikhail Fokine to piano music of Chopin, orchestrated for the ballet by the Russian composer Alexander Glazunov. First presented at the Maryinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in