Uploaded December 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
This is footage of Ballets Russes dancer Vera Savina, probably filmed in the Pathe Studio. It was noted in Eve's Film Review issue number 605.
She married Leonide Massine in 1921 and the couple left the company, with Massine forming a small company to perform in Buenos Aires, in which he and his wife appeared, and for which he staged a number of ballets.
The Massines then took an expanded version of this company on a tour of South America, at the end of which they returned to London, forming another small company and opening a ballet school.
The same year, Massine purchased three islands, the Isole dei Galli, near Positano, Italy.
Massine was divorced from Savina in 1924.
Enjoy!
This is footage of Ballets Russes dancer Vera Savina, probably filmed in the Pathe Studio. It was noted in Eve's Film Review issue number 605.
She married Leonide Massine in 1921 and the couple left the company, with Massine forming a small company to perform in Buenos Aires, in which he and his wife appeared, and for which he staged a number of ballets.
The Massines then took an expanded version of this company on a tour of South America, at the end of which they returned to London, forming another small company and opening a ballet school.
The same year, Massine purchased three islands, the Isole dei Galli, near Positano, Italy.
Massine was divorced from Savina in 1924.
Enjoy!
![Rudolph Nureyev, Karen Kain and Second Cast Rehearse Sleeping Beauty [National Ballet of Canada]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hbvnYXLCKUw/mqdefault.jpg "Rudolph Nureyev, Karen Kain and Second Cast Rehearse Sleeping Beauty [National Ballet of Canada]
This is footage of Rudolph Nureyev and Karen Kain and of a second cast rehearsing Nureyev’s production of ‘The Sleeping Beauty for the National Ballet of Canada.
The set designer for this production was to be Nicholas Georgiadis, who Nureyev had used on many enterprises.
What’s interesting for me in this video was hearing Nureyev and Kain discussing technical problems - using highly technical language, like when the ballerina says “if there’s too much yank, I can’t control my force”!
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