Tamara Toumanova - Excepts from ’Swan Lake’

I’ve compiled the few bits of film footage I have of baby ballerina Tamara Toumanova (1919-1996) dancing in ’Swan Lake’. Sadly there are only performances of the ballerina as Odette -- I suspect her Odile may have been even more successful. Leaving Russia, Toumanova studied ballet with Olga Preobrajenska in Paris and at the age of ten made her debut in the ballet ’L’Éventail de Jeanne’ at the Paris Opera.