First Name
Tamara
Last Name
Toumanova
Date of Birth
02 March 1919
Build
Slim
Hair Color
Brown - Dark
Place of Birth
Tyumen`, Siberia
Star Sign
Pisces
Date of Death
29 May 1996
Place of Death
Santa Monica, California
Claim to Fame
The Black Pearl of the Russian Ballet
Nationality
Russian
Gender
Female
Couple Profile
She was born Tamara Tumanishvili to Georgian parents in Tyumen, Siberia, while her mother was fleeing Georgia in search of her husband. They had become separated the previous year during the Russian Revolution. Tamara was 18 months old before her parents were reunited.
The family escaped from Russia to Shanghai, China, where they lived for a year, then moved to Cairo, Egypt. After spending time in refugee camps, the family settled in Paris, France, where there was a large Russian émigré community. Tamara was given piano lessons and studied ballet with Olga Preobrajenska.
"Preobrajenska was my first and only permanent teacher," Toumanova said. "I think always of Madame Preobrajenska not only as my beloved, never-to-be-forgotten teacher, but my immortal friend."[citation needed]
Toumanova made her debut at the Paris Opera at the age of ten in the children`s ballet L`Éventail de Jeanne (for which ten French composers wrote the music). George Balanchine saw her in ballet class and engaged her for de Basil`s Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo as one of the three "baby ballerinas." She came to be called "The Black Pearl of the Russian Ballet."
Balanchine choreographed the part of the Young Girl for Toumanova in his ballet Cotillon, and had her star in his Concurrence and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.
Léonide Massine also worked closely with Toumanova in the creation of many of his ballets. She played the part of the Top in his Jeux d`Enfants. Balanchine created a role for her in his Le Palais de Cristal (now Symphony in C) in 1947 at the Paris Opera.
In the United States, Toumanova appeared in the movies The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Tonight We Sing (playing Anna Pavlova), Deep in My Heart, Days of Glory, and Alfred Hitchcock`s Torn Curtain.
She died in Santa Monica, California, on May 29, 1996, at the age of 77.
Couple Profile Source
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_Toumanova
Full Name at Birth
Tamara Vladimirovna Tumanova
Wikipedia Text
Tamara Toumanova (2 March 1919–29 May 1996) was a ballerina and actress.
Age
77
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