Throwback
Thursday and Lubov Tchernicheva
Born on
September 17, 1890 in St. Petersburg, Russia, Lubov Tchernicheva was a
principal dancer with several of the Ballet Russes companies throughout the 20th
century. She received her early dance training at the Imperial Theatre School
with teachers such as Fokine and Cecchetti.
In 1909, one
year after her graduation, she married ballet master Grigoriev and together
they joined Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes in 1911. Here she created roles in many
ballets, from Massine’s The Good-Humoured Ladies (1917), La Boutique Fantasque (1919), Nijinska's Les Noces (1923) and and Balanchine's Jack-in-the-Box (1926). She may be best known for her role in
Fokine’s ballet, Cleopatra, pictured
above. She stayed with the company until it dissolved in 1929.
In 1932, she
and her husband joined de Basil’s Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, where she worked
as ballet mistress. She stayed until this company (later called the Original
Ballet Russes), folded in 1952.
She and her
husband then relocated to England where they staged productions of Diaghilev’s repertoire,
and where she worked as a teacher for Sadler’s Wells Ballet and London Festival
Ballet.
Lubov
Tchernicheva died in England on March 1, 1976.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Dance History Factoid #171:
“Lubov Tchernicheva was a principal dancer
with several of the Ballet Russes companies
throughout the 20th century.”
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