Bronislava Nijinska: Early Memoirs

Bronislava Nijinska was a Russian-born ballet dancer and choreographer. She was the daughter of two ballet dancers. Nijinska was enrolled in the Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg with her brother Vaslav Nijinsky. Her teachers were Enrico Cecchetti, Mikhail Fokine, and Nicholai Legat. She joined Serge Diaghilev's Ballet Russe in 1909 and show more from that time on danced important roles in Le Carnival, L'Apres-midi d'un Faune, Petrouchka, Les Sylphides, and Prince Igor. For Diaghilev she choreographed Les Noces, Le Train Bleu, and Romeo et Julliette, the only woman to do so. Later she created the dances for Max Reinhardt's American film, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Renowned for her timeless abstractions, she choreographed works for a number of international companies through the 1960s. (Bowker Author Biography) show less