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Her then partner Viltzak had left England. \n\nKarsavina was still recovering from a foot injury and <i>Spectre</i> was regarded as a less strenuous ballet for her, although dancing the Spirit of the Rose twice daily for two weeks was strenuous for Dolin. He treasured a thank you she sent: ‘My very sincere thanks for your whole-hearted support and sympathetic help in a difficult time.’\n\r\nThe <i>Observer</i>, 8 May 1927, noted that in these performances Karsavina as a ballerina had something special. ‘Whatever it is Karsavina has it - especially when she wears a crinoline and frames the dark reverie of her face in a white bonnet. She seems to be dancing when she is sitting down. That is the spirit of Le Spectre de la rose’. Dolin, the critic noted, found grace more of a challenge, not helped by a ‘terrible costume which symbolises an elderly spinster's last effort to look young.’\r\n","physicalDescription":"Full-length photograph of Tamara Karsavina in costume for the Young Girl in <i>Le Spectre de la rose</i>, with Anton Dolin looking through a circular opening in a painted wall, his right arm held over his head. Apparently inscribed by Dolin in 1927 and by Karsavina when she was very old. 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