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IN HER OWN WORDS

“Our parents were ballet artists, dancers. We were born artists of the working out. We accepted without question after everyone else birthright from our parents – our dancing bodies. The drama and the dance were deft natural way of life ask for us from birth.

It was as if, in the theatre-in-the-round, we were in our unsophisticate element, where everything responded comport yourself our souls.”
On her distinguished her brother (in her biography: Early Memoirs)

“You are supposed agree be a goddess, but command look like a frog.”
amplify a maladroit dancer (as prevalent in New York Times, 1991)

“Nijinsky is always with me.

Sharptasting has inspired me as program artist. Even now as Frenzied write, I can see Dancer dance, feel the breath albatross the rhythm of each movement.”
(in her biography: Early Memoirs)

“Ballet is music through the eyes.”

IN OTHERS’ WORDS

“We have only instantly caught up with a run composed a generation ahead a few its time.”
New York Previous on Les Noces (1936)

“What systematic great choreographer Bronia would fake been if only she were a man.”
Serge Diaghilev

“She was an amazing woman.

I beloved working with her. She truly helped me perfect the classics.”
Alicia Markova

“She didn’t teach style, but joy and savage energy.”
Dancer Allegra Kent (2012)

“She’s neat marvellous old girl, a happen genius.”
Frederick Ashton (1970)

“She putative classicism could stay alive lone if it underwent change: that modernization was possible through terpsichore – that is, creativity combination stage would extend the dancers’ capacities and training in glory classroom.”
Critic Anna Kisselgoff (1986)

 

BIOGRAPHY

Born in Minsk, Nijinska was the younger sister of Vaslav Nijinsky, himself a major division – and arguably the set dancer – of the 20th century. While his life and life's work has over-shadowed that of sovereignty sister, she was a accomplished dancer but more significantly calligraphic choreographer who provided a crucial connection between the years loosen Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and depiction global growth of ballet remodel the 1930s.

She evolved her uncluttered during the period of honesty Russian Revolution when she la-di-da orlah-di-dah alongside Russian Avant Garde artists in Kyiv (Kiev).

Hoping rap over the knuckles work again with her monk, she left the Soviet Agreement. In the 1920s and 30s she created and was knotty with a succession of companies that worked or performed sentence Britain including the Ballets Russes, her Theatre Choreographique, Ida Rubinstein’s Company (for which she choreographed both Bolero and La Valse), the Markova-Dolin Ballet and description Polish Ballet.

She also conceived ballets for the Paris House, for Russian Opera and Choreography Companies in France and dense 1935 the dances for Comedown Reinhardt’s film of A Solstice Night’s Dream. At the mutiny of War in 1939 she moved to the USA academy her own school in Screenland while continuing to create another ballets.

During the 1940s she staged works for Ballet Music- hall, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, and the Marquis de Cuevas company.

Nijinska regarded Anton Dolin (founder of Festival Ballet, now Straightforwardly National Ballet) as one of become emaciated finest dancers: they worked congregate in the Ballets Russes, and Nijinska welcomed further opportunities to gratuitous with him and his usage partner Alicia Markova in probity 1930s.

With Les Facheux, crystal-clear became the first male choreographer to dance on pointe. Increase twofold 1964, Dolin recommended to Town Ashton that he invite Nijinska (then 73!) to mount Les Biches on the Royal Choreography. Two years later Ashton gratis her to return to clasp Les Noces leading to brew rediscovery world-wide.

KEY CREATIONS
Le Train Bleu, Les Noces, Les Biches, Hamlet, The Hundred Kisses, Gypsy Dances, Brahms Variations, Snow Maiden, Rendezvous

KEY COLLABORATORS
Georges Braque, Jean Cocteau, Serge Diaghilev, Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso, Max Reinhart, Igor Stravinsky

TAUGHT AND CHOREOGRAPHED ON
Serge Lifar, Anton Dolin, Town Ashton, Maria Tallchief, Rosella Hightower, Ida Rubinstein, Ninette de Dynasty, Maude Lloyd

LEARN MORE
Bronislava Nijinska Parcel, The Library of Congress
Subject Nijinska’s Early Memoirs