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Tamara Geva (Russian: Тамара Жева, born Tamara Levkievna Zheverzheeva, Russian: Тамара Левкиевна Жевержеева; 17 March 1906 – 9 December 1997) was a Soviet and later an American actress, ballet dancer, and choreographer.
31. Dez. 2022 · Tamara Geva was a prodigious Soviet-American artist who reshaped the entire landscape of ballet, theater, and dance. Performing across the world throughout her career, Geva would ultimately be one of the first ambassadors of ballet in America. Her life, riddled with unique trials and triumphs, was extraordinary and complex.
11. Dez. 1997 · Tamara Geva, a Russian-born dancer and actress who was the first wife of the choreographer George Balanchine, died on Tuesday at her home in Manhattan. She was 91. A sophisticated woman with a...
Tamara Geva (1907-1997) was a Russian-born actress, dancer and writer who married George Balanchine and appeared in several Broadway shows. She also wrote a biography of Diaghilev, the founder of Ballets Russes.
- January 1, 1
- St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
- January 1, 1
- New York City, New York, USA
Tamara Geva. Actress: Orchestra Wives. The daughter of a Swedish mother (Tamara Urtahl, a Swede) and of a wealthy St. Petersburg manufacturer of Muslim heritage and patron of the arts who later became a free-thinker (Levko Zheverzheiev), Geva grew up in a vast 18th century mansion which included a private museum.
- March 17, 1907
- December 9, 1997
(orig. Tamara Gevergeyeva; b St Petersburg, 17 Mar. 1906; d New York, 9 Dec. 1997)Russian-US dancer and actress. She studied in St Petersburg and joined GATOB (as the Kirov was known in those days). She married Balanchine when she was 16 (he was 18) and went with him to the West in 1924, travelling in a troupe known as the Soviet State Dancers ...
9. Dez. 1997 · Geva is forever remembered for her starring role in On You Toes, and for her further successes in her career as an actress in musicals and films. Geva died December 9, 1997 at her home in Manhattan. (Originally published September 1996, updated January 1998)
