Barbara Karinska
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Varvara Jmoudsky, better known as Barbara Karinska or simply Karinska, was a Ukrainian-American costumier of cinema, ballet, musical and dramatic theatre, lyric opera and ice spectacles. Over her 50-y
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Nikolai Karinsky in 1923
Costumes by Barbara Karinska for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo: from left – Coppelia (act 2), Coppelia (act 1), and Giselle (act 2). Displayed at Beit Ariela, Tel Aviv-Yafo.
Barbara Karinska in her London Studio, 1939
Tutu (clothing)
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A tutu is a dress worn as a costume in a classical ballet performance, often with attached bodice. It may be made of tarlatan, muslin, silk, tulle, gauze, or nylon. Modern tutus have two basic types:
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…stroke left her unable to speak or move. With a large assembly of dancers on stage – as was often preferred by Balanchine—the traditional "pancake" tutu with its stiff wired layer would bob and dip when the dancers' skirts brushed up against one another and this bobbing and dipping would reverberate…
A colourfully decorated classical ballet tutu, on a dress form
Anna Pavlova in Giselle, wearing a romantic tutu
Classical bell tutus in The Dance Class by Edgar Degas, 1874
Dancer wearing a pancake tutu in the Grand Pas de deux from Don Quixote