Bronislava nijinska biography of michael

Women’s History Month in Dance 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48.

Nijinska — who was born in in Minsk and died in in Los Angeles — was the younger sister of Vaslav Nijinsky.

Nijinska — who was born in in Minsk and died in in Los Angeles — was the younger sister of Vaslav Nijinsky.

Overshadowed by her brother, dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky (), Bronislava Nijinska had a far longer and more productive.

Nijinska was born in while her parents, Eleonora Bereda and Foma Nijinsky, were on tour in Warsaw.

Up to the s, it was known to be the ballet that senior régisseur Michael Somes supervised with greatest zeal, insisting on even more bending of the torso.

Biographical materials on Bronislava Nijinska include her birth certificate, ephemera, identification and travel documents, medical correspondence, photographs.

Few figures in dance history better deserve to be rescued from relative obscurity than the often forgotten Bronislava Nijinska (1891-1972). So  it was good news, last weekend, to hear the super-intelligent dance historian Lynn Garafola say, on line, that she had completed the Nijinska biography on which she has been working for many years. 

Nijinska - who began choreographing in Russia during the First World War, and then came west in 1921, just when Diaghilev needed a new choreographer - was one of the most powerfully original of all teachers and choreographers.

Before the First World War, she had created roles for both Mikhail Fokine (a Street Dancer in “Petrushka”) and her brother Vaslav Nijinsky; her “Early Memoirs” about those years may be the most intelligently vivid of all ballet autobiographies.

In her own chore