Dancing into the Unknown: My Life in the Ballets Russes and Beyond

Tamara Tchinarova was born in Romania in 1919 and began her dance training in Paris with emigré ballerinas from the Imperial Russian Ballet. She danced professionally in Europe with the touring Ballet Russes companies that emerged in the 1930s after the death of the entrepreneur Serge Diaghilev, and she went to Australia in 1936 with the Ballet Russes de Monte- Carlo, returning in 1938 with the Covent Garden Russian Ballet. In Australia during those first two tours by the Russian Ballet she...