NIJINSKA, BRONISLAVA

brônēˈsləvə nyīzhēnˈskə, 1891–1972, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer; sister of Vaslav Nijinsky. She studied at the Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg and then joined the Maryinsky Theatre. In 1909, she moved to Diaghilev's Ballet Russe, where she danced in the entire repertory. Although she left the company to teach during World War I, she returned in 1921 as a choreographer. She later choreographed for numerous European and American companies. Her ballets Les Noces (1923) and Les Biches (1924) are frequently performed.

See her Early Memoirs (1981).

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books on: Nijinska Bronislava  - 52 results

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Sisters of Salome
Book by Toni Bentley; University of Nebraska Press, 2005
Subjects: Feminism And Dance, Salome--(Biblical Figure), Women Dancers--Biography
...Frick Collection, 1995. Nijinska, Bronislava. Brvnr:?lava Nijindlea...Translated and edited by Irina Nijinska and Jean Rawlinson. Introduction...Severn, Margaret. Dancing with Bronislava Nijinska and Ida Rubinstein. Dance...
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Beyond Structural Listening? Postmodern Modes of Hearing
Book by Andrew Dell'Antonio; University of California Press, 2004
Subjects: Music--Philosophy And Aesthetics, Music--Social Aspects, Musical Analysis, Musical Criticism, Postmodernism
...Prejudices of Morality . Translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Nijinska, Bronislava. 1992. Bronislava Nijinska: Early Memoirs . Translated and edited by Irina Nijinska and Jean Rawlinson. Durham: Duke University...
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The Paris Opera: An Encyclopedia of Operas, Ballets, Composers, and Performers Growth and Grandeur, 1815-1914
Book by Spire Pitou; Greenwood Press, 1990
Subjects: Opaera De Paris, Opera--France--Paris--Encyclopedias
...ICM 1258; Lajarte VI, 322. Nijinska, Bronislava b. January 1891, Minsk; d...volume for Lifar . It was Mme Nijinska who sent him to the French capital...Ballets russes. After the war, Nijinska worked at a number of theatres...
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Everyman's Concise Encyclopaedia of Russia
Book by S. V. Utechin; J. M. Dent & Sons, 1961
Subjects: Soviet Union--Dictionaries And Encyclopedias
...Baltic Sea. Length 590 m.; chief port Kaunas. Nijinska, Bronislava b. 1890 , dancer, choreographer and teacher, sister...Nijinsky in the first season of the Ballets Russes. La Nijinska the title given her by Diaghilev enjoys the distinction...
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The Male Dancer: Bodies, Spectacle, Sexualities
Book by Ramsay Burt; Routledge, 1995
Subjects: Dance--Anthropological Aspects, Dance--Sociological Aspects, Male Dancers, Sex In Dance
...207 fn13 Night Journey (ch. Graham 1947) 146 Nijinska, Bronislava (1891-1972), 3 , 75 , 87 , 93-100 , 197...printemps Nilsen, Dennis 188-9 Noces, Les (ch. Nijinska 1923) 93-7 passim Nochlin, Linda 76 , 85 , 89...
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The Epoch Continues
Journal article by Marcia B. Siegel; The Hudson Review, Vol. 62, 2009
Subjects: Ballet, Ballet companies, Dancers & choreographers, Subcultures
...repertory. Boston did a stunning production of the Bronislava Nijinska/Igor Stravinsky Les Noces a couple of years ago...work of five choreographers: Fokine, Nijinsky, Bronislava Nijinska, Leonide Massine, and George Balanchine. The...
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Trans-Formal Translation: Plays into Ballets, with Special Reference to Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet
Journal article by Rodney Stenning Edgecombe; Yearbook of English Studies, Vol. 36, 2006
Subjects: Elizabethan drama--Criticism and interpretation, Elizabethan drama--Translations and translating
...stylized parallelism upon the feet. Bronislava Nijinska, sister of the famous Nijinsky...insisted upon the close links Nijinska maintained with academic technique...confidence and ease. In contrast with Nijinska, however, other choreographers...
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Fashioning Cléopâtre: Sonia Delaunay's New Woman
Journal article by Juliet Bellow; Art Journal, Vol. 68, 2009
Subjects: Ballet, Costume design, Women
...Baksts original.28 According to Bronislava Nijinska, who performed in this ballet...original production, according to Nijinska, Cleopatras priestesses "unwound...ritualized undressing, which, as Nijinska noted, originally ended with...
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Dancing through the Cold War: The Case of the Nutcracker
Journal article by Catherine Gunther Kodat; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 33, 2000
Subjects: Balanchine, George--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Ballet--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Cold War--Analysis, The Nutcracker (Ballet)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...The Nutcracker" (53). However, with the exception of excerpted divertissements created by Michel Fokine and Bronislava Nijinska for Serge Diaghilevs Ballets Russes (which were performed in Paris, not Moscow or St. Petersburg), Anderson...
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The 'Great Articulation of the Inarticulate': Reading the Jazz Body in Australian and American Popular Culture in the 1960s
Journal article by Amanda Card; Journal of Australian Studies, 1998
Subjects: Australia--Social aspects, Jazz dance--Australia, Jazz music--Australia, The Pyjama Game (Theater)--Production and direction
...working within a classical tradition was not an entirely new phenomena. The work of classical choreographers such as Bronislava Nijinska, Leonard Massine and George Balanchine had been influenced by popular jazz forms in Paris as far back as the 1920s...


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Nijinska Revival Continues: Restoring a Lost Work
Magazine article by Marilyn Hunt; Dance Magazine, Vol. 69, October 1995
Subjects: Dance production--Technique, Nijinska, Bronislava--Works, Oakland Ballet Company--Production and direction, Youshkevitch, Nina--Production and direction
Nijinska revival continues: restoring a lost...highly stylized and complex 1928 work of Bronislava Nijinska, an almost austere tour de force of...reconstructed for Oakland Ballet by Nijinska protegee Nina Youshkevitch, who danced...
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Nijinska in Action
Magazine article by Allegra Kent; Dance Magazine, Vol. 76, August 2002
Subjects: Ballet dancing--Personal narratives, Ballet--Study and teaching, Nijinska, Irina--Conduct of life
...instructions and corrections. Madame Bronislava Nijinska was single-mindedly at work...located the ballet studios of Bronislava Nijinska in the yellow pages. It was...Went to learn more? Try Bronislava Nijinska: Early Memoirs by Bronislava...
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Secret Sibling
Magazine article by Siobhan Peiffer; New Statesman, Vol. 130, May 21, 2001
Subjects: Choreographers--Conduct of life, Diaghilev, Serge--Conduct of life, Nijinska, Bronislava--Conduct of life, Nijinsky, Vaslav--Conduct of life
...by Siobhan Peiffer Bronislava Nijinska was hailed as the...than they should be. Bronislava Nijinska, the greatest female...century dance. Nijinska began as classical...circuses and fairs, and Bronislava arrived right in the...
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A Museum Pays Homage to the Heroes of Dance
Magazine article by Robert Johnson; Dance Magazine, Vol. 68, September 1994
Subjects: Dancing--Galleries and museums, National Museum of Dance--Exhibitions
...greatest choreographers, Bronislava Nijinska, entered the hall of fame...Balanchine. The exhibition "Bronislava Nijinska: Classic on the Edge" follows...rotating installation, "Bronislava Nijinska: Classic on the Edge" temporarily...
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Obituaries
Magazine article; Dance Magazine, Vol. 73, March 1999
Subjects: Choreographers--Biography, Dancers--Biography
...of the Legion of Honor. Further shows included "Bronislava Nijinska: A Dancers Legacy" (1986), which led to Baers...others in Paris and became a leading dancer for Bronislava Nijinska. In the United States she was a ballerina of the...
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Tallchief: A Ballerina in Step with Balanchine: Dancer Still Soars in Works That the Famed Choreographer Created for Her
Newspaper article by Jean Battey Lewis; The Washington Times, December 1, 1996
Subjects: American Ballet Theatre, Balanchine, George
...working hard at the piano, she studied dance with Bronislava Nijinska, who had been a choreographer for Diaghilevs Ballets...to become a concert pianist. Studied dance with Bronislava Nijinska, choreographer for Diaghilevs Ballets Russes and...
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Joffrey Ballet to Perform Daring Diaghilev Works
Newspaper article by Jean Battey Lewis; The Washington Times, December 7, 1997
Subjects: Joffrey, Robert
...a careful reconstruction of "The Rite of Spring" by Vaslav Nijinsky and "Les Noces" by Nijinskys sister, Bronislava Nijinska. Such heroic works are not possible for the company now, downsized as it is to meet todays harsher economic climate...
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Exotic Look at Dance World; Baltimore Exhibits Ballets Russes Garb
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 1, 2003
Subjects: Diaghilev, Serge
...the Ballets Russes in Monte Carlo in 1923. There, the company embraced modernism in all of the arts it used. Bronislava Nijinska, Nijinskys sister, took over as choreographer, and Mr. Stravinsky continued to write the music. The impresario...
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Joffrey Plunges into 'Spring'
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 2, 2002
Subjects: American Ballet Theatre, Joffrey, Robert
...insane, was in over his head in the experimental works he made for his mentor, Serge Diaghilev. His sister, Bronislava Nijinska, dispels that myth in her autobiography with her description of the avid way he would work at home devising new...
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An Unhappy Marriage; DANCE
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), May 4, 2005
...probably only one about marriage, and thats sure to be a rose-tinted take on love, honour and cherish. Not so Bronislava Nijinska, the Russian choreographer whose 1923 Les Noces imagined marriage in terms of tribal imperatives and the almost...
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Nijinska, Bronislava
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
NIJINSKA, BRONISLAVA brone sl v nyizhen sk , 1891 1972, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer; sister of Vaslav Nijinsky . She studied at the Imperial...
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Nijinsky, Vaslav
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and choreographer; brother of Bronislava Nijinska . Nijinsky is widely considered...diary, ed. by his wife, R. Nijinska (1936, rev. ed. 1963, unexpurgated...1998); biographies by R. Nijinska (1933 and 1952, repr. 1968...
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Ballet
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the creative talents of such choreographers and dancers as Michel Fokine , Leonide Massine , Vaslav Nijinsky , Bronislava Nijinska , Anna Pavlova , and George Balanchine . After Diaghilevs death in 1929, offshoots were formed by Rene Blum and...
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Tallchief, Maria
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Osage descent, was trained both as a pianist and as a dancer. Deciding on a career in ballet, she studied under Bronislava Nijinska , Ernest Belcher, and George Balanchine , whom she later married. She performed with the Ballet Russe de Monte...
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Lifar, Serge
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Russian dancer, choreographer, director, teacher, and dance historian, b. Kiev. Lifar studied briefly with Bronislava Nijinska, but he was primarily self-taught. In 1923 he joined the Diaghilev Ballet Russe in Paris, for which he became...
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