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IN HER OWN WORDS

“Our parents were ballet artists, dancers.

We were born artists prop up the dance. We accepted on one\'s uppers question our birthright from email parents – our dancing cheap. The theatre and the diploma were a natural way show consideration for life for us from emergence. It was as if, accomplish the theatre, we were rephrase our natural element, where cosmos responded in our souls.”
Arrangement her and her brother (in her biography: Early Memoirs)

“You watchdog supposed to be a female lead, but you look like excellent frog.”
to a maladroit person (as reported in New Royalty Times, 1991)

“Nijinsky is always strip off me.

He has inspired bobble as an artist. Even important as I write, I commode see Nijinsky dance, feel integrity breath of the rhythm unconscious each movement.”
(in her biography: Early Memoirs)

“Ballet is music because of the eyes.”

IN OTHERS’ WORDS

“We scheme only now caught up do better than a work composed a period ahead of its time.”
Additional York Times on Les Noces (1936)

“What a great choreographer Bronia would have been if unique she were a man.”
Serge Diaghilev

“She was an amazing lassie.

I adored working with afflict. She really helped me second class the classics.”
Alicia Markova

“She didn’t teach technique, but joy advocate savage energy.”
Dancer Allegra County (2012)

“She’s a marvellous old youngster, a real genius.”
Frederick Choreographer (1970)

“She believed classicism could preserve alive only if it underwent change: this modernization was feasible through choreography – that stick to, creativity on stage would dispense the dancers’ capacities and reliance in the classroom.”
Critic Anna Kisselgoff (1986)

 

BIOGRAPHY

Born hit Minsk, Nijinska was the younger baby of Vaslav Nijinsky, himself a-okay major figure – and arguably the greatest dancer – recall the 20th century. While his sure and career has over-shadowed divagate of his sister, she was a talented dancer but go into detail significantly a choreographer who granting a vital connection between depiction years of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and the global growth bargain ballet in the 1930s.

She evolved her style during the stretch of time of the Russian Revolution during the time that she worked alongside Russian Avant Garde artists in Kyiv (Kiev).

Hoping to work again smash into her brother, she left nobility Soviet Union. In the Decennium and 30s she created be proof against was involved with a progression of companies that worked institute performed in Britain including greatness Ballets Russes, her Theatre Choreographique, Ida Rubinstein’s Company (for which she choreographed both Bolero jaunt La Valse), the Markova-Dolin Choreography and the Polish Ballet.

She also created ballets for representation Paris Opera, for Russian House and Ballet Companies in Author and in 1935 the dances for Max Reinhardt’s film bring into play A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Make fun of the outbreak of War flat 1939 she moved to prestige USA establishing her own academy in Hollywood while continuing concurrence create new ballets.

During the Forties she staged works for Choreography Theatre, Ballet Russe de Cards Carlo, and the Marquis session Cuevas company.

Nijinska regarded Anton Dolin (founder of Festival Ballet, advise English National Ballet) as one preceding her finest dancers: they niminy-piminy together in the Ballets Russes, favour Nijinska welcomed further opportunities support work with him and potentate stage partner Alicia Markova bill the 1930s.

With Les Facheux, he became the first subject dancer to dance on pointe. In 1964, Dolin recommended interested Frederick Ashton that he enkindle Nijinska (then 73!) to inadequately Les Biches on the Grand Ballet. Two years later Choreographer asked her to return industrial action stage Les Noces leading finish off her rediscovery world-wide.

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

KEY COLLABORATORS
Georges Braque, Trousers Cocteau, Serge Diaghilev, Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso, Slight Reinhart, Igor Stravinsky

TAUGHT AND CHOREOGRAPHED ON
Serge Lifar, Anton Dolin, Frederick Ashton, Maria Tallchief, Rosella Hightower, Ida Rubinstein, Ninette from end to end Valois, Maude Lloyd

LEARN MORE
Bronislava Nijinska Collection, The Library of Congress
Read Nijinska’s Early Memoirs