Carina the Ballerina

Carina the Ballerina appeared in Sesame Street Episode 4091 as Zoe's friend from dance class. They dance with Elmo to the tune of the Rondo Alla Turca movement from Mozart's "Sonata in A."
Her name is a take on Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin's 1971 ballet of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.
The year Carina was introduced, Frankie Cordero puppeteered her on the Sesame Street float at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Carina is similar in design to Olive, a main character on the French co-production of Sesame Street, 5, Rue Sésame. In subsequent years, the puppet has been used as a stock AM Monster, and was later recycled (with altered features) as Karli.
==See also==
* Grover's backup singers
* Sesame Street monsters
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