By Barbara Quick The Russian ballerina Tamara Karsavina became a writer at the age of 46, when — against all odds as someone who only learned English as an adult — she penned a richly detailed, wonderfully written memoir for the English-speaking world: Theatre Street, first published in London in 1931. I sought out the
By Barbara Quick What Disappears, my new novel set in the world of the Ballets Russes (Regal House), had a decades-long gestation. When I started it, the story was about my maternal great-grandmother and her family, Russian Jews in Kishinev in the time of the tsars. Dance had nothing to do with that first draft,
By Robert Greskovic Part three in our series featuring the personal photo card collection of our New York correspondent After the October Revolution of 1917, the imperial ballet world’s schools and theatres were renamed by the new Bolshevik government as state theatres and state academies. Once ballet troupes began to come out of Soviet Russia