A Great Find

As youll know by now, I have a particular interest in the Ballets Russes, particularly the first Serge de Diaghilev period of 19091929. And so I was excited to find this 1909 footage of Maria Alexandra Baldina (18851977) and Theodore Kosloff aka Fyodor Kozlov (18821956), her husband, performing Valse Caprice, a pas de deux created by Nikolai Legat to music by Anton Rubinstein. The ballerina (variously known as Alexandra Baldina and Maria Baldina) appeared with Tamara Karsavina, Vaslav Nijinsky and A