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词条 Thamara de Swirsky
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  1. Early life

  2. Career

  3. Personal life

  4. References

  5. External links

Thamara de Swirsky (October 17, 1888 — December 24, 1961), sometimes seen as Tamara de Svirsky, Thamara Swirskaya, or Countess de Swirsky, was a Russian-born dancer, known for dancing barefoot.

Early life

Thamara de Swirsky was born in St. Petersburg[1] into a prosperous Russian family. She studied piano in Paris and Munich, and dance in St. Petersburg.[2]

Her claim on the title "Countess" was disputed. Her mother, Zenaide de Podwissotski, may have been a medical doctor in Paris before accompanying Thamara to the United States.[3]

Career

Thamara de Swirsky, advertised as having the "most musical body in the world",[4] "created a sensation" in the United States with her barefoot dancing.[5] Reviewers assured (or warned) readers that, while her feet were bare, she did not dance nude.[6] "Her costumes are triumphs of sartorial amplitude," declared one disappointed critic. "They leave everything to the imagination."[7] She also performed a "bat dance" with billowing sheer fabric wings.[8][9] She was the last advertised performer to appear at the Coliseum Garden Theatre in Raton, New Mexico before it was destroyed in a 1911 fire.[10]

Thamara de Swirsky also played piano as part of some of her performances.[11] "Her style of dancing is her own," explained one Los Angeles reporter.[12] Beyond the vaudeville stage, at the Metropolitan Opera[13] she appeared as a dancer in Orfeo ed Euridice and Zar und Zimmermann, both in 1909.[14] She also danced in Delibes' Lakmé with the Boston Opera, at English's Opera House.[15] In 1912 she performed a version of her dances in a short silent film[16] for Independent Moving Pictures.[17] In 1913 she was part of an advertising campaign for Seduction perfume.[18]

Her opinions, whims, and demands made news.[19] She smoked cigars and cigarettes.[20] She was said to have insured each of her toes for $10,000 in 1910.[21] In 1914, she was a member of Anna Pavlova's company, and her pleas for a more humid New York hotel room were reported in the New York Times.[22] Italian artist Piero Tozzi painted a portrait of de Swirsky, titled "His Flame of Life", when she turned away his romantic interest.[23][24]

During World War I she performed in New York, combining dance and "dramatic art".[25] In 1919 she appeared in a silent film, The Mad Woman, made by the Stage Women's War Relief Fund.[26][27]

Personal life

In 1933 there were reports that Swirskaya was engaged to marry twice-widowed New York lawyer Frederick G. Fischer; and that his family committed him to an asylum to prevent the match.[28][29]

Thamara de Swirsky professed particular love for Los Angeles as early as 1910, recalling that "I knew when I first touched foot to your soil that here I would find the warmth and the glow which would call out the best that is in me."[30] She settled in Los Angeles after her dance career; she taught and played piano for a living. She died there in 1961, weeks after she was badly injured in a traffic accident during a storm,[31] aged 73 years.[32]

There is a statuette of Thamara de Swirsky in a dance pose, by Paolo Troubetzkoy, in the collection of the Getty Museum. Her unpublished memoirs have also been discovered in recent years.[33]

References

1. ^Harry Prescott Hanaford, Dixie Hines, eds. [https://books.google.com/books?id=tpafAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA95&ots=W6xJ-7IDcb&dq=Thamara%20de%20Swirsky&pg=PA95#v=onepage&q=Thamara%20de%20Swirsky&f=false Who's who in Music and Drama] (H. P. Hanaford 1914): 95.
2. ^Rudolph Aronson, [https://books.google.com/books?id=mJmfAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA212&dq=Thamara%20de%20Swirsky&pg=PA212#v=onepage&q=Thamara%20de%20Swirsky&f=false Theatrical and Musical Memoirs] (McBride Nast 1913): 212-214.
3. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=TfxHAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA101&ots=nSTqLDjVhJ&dq=Countess%20de%20Swirsky&pg=PA101#v=onepage&q=Countess%20de%20Swirsky&f=false "Is She Really a Russian Noble?"] Town Talk (November 12, 1910): 13.
4. ^[https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/cgi-bin/colorado?a=d&d=MDP19110504-01.2.24# "Countess Who Has Most Musical Body in World"] Montrose Daily Press (May 4, 1911): 4. via Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection
5. ^[https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH19101113.2.136.49 "Thamara de Swirsky, Russian Countess Who Will Appear in Novel Barefoot Dance in Auditorium"] Los Angeles Herald (November 13, 1910): III7. via California Digital Newspaper Collection
6. ^Andrew L. Erdman, [https://books.google.com/books?id=b_VTCgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA104&dq=Thamara%20de%20Swirsky&pg=PA104#v=onepage&q=Thamara%20de%20Swirsky&f=false Blue Vaudeville: Sex, Morals and the Mass Marketing of Amusement, 1895–1915] (McFarland 2007): 104. {{ISBN|9781476613291}}
7. ^Edward F. O'Day, [https://books.google.com/books?id=TfxHAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA106&dq=Thamara%20de%20Swirsky&pg=PA106#v=onepage&q=Thamara%20de%20Swirsky&f=false "Thamara de Swirsky Disappointed"] San Francisco Daily Times (November 12, 1910): 8.
8. ^Shaemas O'Sheel, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Vs01AQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA195&dq=Thamara%20de%20Swirsky&pg=PA195#v=onepage&q=Thamara%20de%20Swirsky&f=false "On with the Dance"] Forum (February 1911): 195.
9. ^Hrabina Thamara de Swirsky (1888-1961), tancerka, tańcząca "Fledermauss valse" (ujęcie całej postaci), Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie.
10. ^F. Stanley, [https://books.google.com/books?id=jUOs3A994xUC&lpg=PA169&dq=Thamara%20de%20Swirsky&pg=PA169#v=onepage&q=Thamara%20de%20Swirsky&f=false The Grant That Maxwell Bought] (Sunstone Press 2008): 169. {{ISBN|9780865346529}}
11. ^"De Swirsky Seen in Dances" Boston Globe (October 11, 1911): 5.
12. ^"Tantalizing Thamara" Los Angeles Times (November 5, 1910): I13.
13. ^George Dorris, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25598207 "Dance and the New York Opera War, 1906-1912"] Dance Chronicle 32(2)(2009): 210.
14. ^Gerald Fitzgerald, ed., [https://books.google.com/books?id=ff9jDAAAQBAJ&lpg=PR335&dq=Thamara%20de%20Swirsky&pg=PR251#v=onepage&q=Thamara%20de%20Swirsky&f=false Annals of the Metropolitan Opera: The Complete Chronicle of Performances and Artists] (Springer 2016): 224/4C. {{ISBN|9781349119769}}
15. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=06ABAAAAYAAJ&dq=Thamara%20de%20Swirsky&pg=PA67#v=onepage&q=Thamara%20de%20Swirsky&f=false "Thamara de Swirsky, the Unadorned Russian Dancer"] Indianapolis Medical Journal (February 15, 1910): 67.
16. ^[https://www.celebri.com/movie/classical-dances-by-countess-thamara-de-swirsky/1912/1322286/ Classical Dances by Countess Thamara de Swirsky] (1912).
17. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=fCRJAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA7-PA25&ots=IAKb4-sDBs&dq=Thamara%20de%20Swirsky&pg=RA7-PA25#v=onepage&q=Thamara%20de%20Swirsky&f=false "Notes of the Week"] The Moving Picture News (February 24, 1912): 25.
18. ^Verbinina, [https://verbinina.wordpress.com/2014/07/03/ads-for-seduction-perfume-by-gelle-freres-part-2/ "Ads for Séduction perfume by Gellé frères (part 2)"] Verbinina (July 3, 2014).
19. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12030625/thamara_de_swirsky_on_american_women/ "Frown Too Much and Wear Corsets"] Times Dispatch (August 21, 1910): 31. via Newspapers.com{{open access}}
20. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12030781/the_knave_july_1912/ "The Knave"] Oakland Tribune (June 9, 1912): 26. via Newspapers.com{{open access}}
21. ^"Each Pink Toe, Ten Thousand Dollars" Los Angeles Times (November 16, 1910): II1.
22. ^"Asked for Damp Room" New York Times (November 1, 1914): C4.
23. ^"Eyes Show Russia's Sorrow" Los Angeles Times (January 7, 1911): II1.
24. ^"Will Countess Wed Painter?" Los Angeles Times (December 5, 1910): I18.
25. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12033879/thamara_swirskaya_1918/ "Thamara Swirskaya to Dance on Thursday"] New-York Tribune (January 13, 1918): 35. via Newspapers.com{{open access}}
26. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=EuFNAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA183&ots=APzhkLEDiq&dq=Stage%20Women's%20War%20Relief%20Swirskaya&pg=PA183#v=onepage&q=Stage%20Women's%20War%20Relief%20Swirskaya&f=false "When Broadway Favorites Saw Themselves as Others See Them"] Theatre Magazine (March 1919): 183.
27. ^Margaret McIvor-Tyndall, [https://books.google.com/books?id=9jEcAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA285&ots=Rh0rO9JOa6&dq=Stage%20Women's%20War%20Relief%20Swirskaya&pg=PA285#v=onepage&q=Stage%20Women's%20War%20Relief%20Swirskaya&f=false "What Women of the Theatre are Doing for Uncle Sam"] National Service (May 1919): 285.
28. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12034260/thamara_swirskaya_engaged_1933/ "Aids Lawyer Fiance"] Salem News (October 3, 1933): 5. via Newspapers.com{{open access}}
29. ^"Dragged the Rich, Aristocratic Old Lawyer to an Asylum as He Was to Wed the 'Perfect Body' Danseuse" Atlanta Constitution (April 15, 1934): SM4.
30. ^"Passion of Art Drives Her On" Los Angeles Times (November 22, 1910): II6.
31. ^"Storm Figures in 7 Deaths, 200 Accidents" Los Angeles Times (December 3, 1961): A.
32. ^"Rites Planned for Tamara Swirskaya" Los Angeles Times (December 28, 1961): B11.
33. ^Anne-Lise Desmas, "The Dancer Statuette by Paolo Troubetzkoy and the Incredible Life of Countess Thamara Swirskaya" Getty Center (February 2, 2014).

External links

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  • [https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/jerome-robbins-dance-division-photograph-files#/?tab=navigation&roots=87522240-c5fd-012f-308c-58d385a7bc34/112:048e64c0-c5fe-012f-3626-58d385a7bc34 Photographs] of Thamara de Swirsky in the Jerome Robbins Dance Division Photograph Files, New York Public Library.
  • [https://www.loc.gov/item/ggb2004005791/ Photograph] of Thamara de Swirsky in the George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress.
  • Photograph of Thamara de Swirsky in an Egyptian-inspired costume and pose, from the Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie.
  • Photographs of Tamara Swirskaya by Bassano Ltd, in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.
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