Karsavina

Her passion for dance, which she discovered when she was about 4, took her to London, where she studied with Ms. Karsavina and Marie Rambert.

A close friend of Karsavina, he later became a much-loved teacher and worked closely with the Royal Academy of Dance.

That motto was prescribed by Diaghilev’s great ballerina Tamara Karsavina.

But before several dances on Friday night’s program, a screen at the front of the stage showed black-and-white photographs of legendary Mariinsky names: Anna Pavlova, Vaslav Nijinsky, Enrico Cecchetti and Tamara Karsavina.

Tamara Karsavina, Diaghilev’s Giselle and a famously intelligent ballerina, once said, “Leave the stage before the stage leaves you.”