Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

THE CHOREOGRAPHIC CAREER OF BRONISLAVA NIJINSKA

THE CHOREOGRAPHIC CAREER OF BRONISLAVA NIJINSKA Dancer and choreographer Bronisiava Fominichna Nizhinska (Bronislava Nijinska, 1891-1972) shaped her ballets as she shaped her life--independentiy, creatively, and with integrity. Initially inspired by her brother Vaslav Nijinsky and encouraged subsequently by impresario Sergei Diaghilev, she choregraphed more than eighty ballets, at least one of which-Les Noces (1923)-is an acknowledged masterpiece.' In a dis- cussion of this avant-garde classic created in collaboration with the com- poser Igor Stravinsky and the painter Natalia Goncharova, the historian Lincoln Kirstein wrote, "[Nijinska] attacked choreography as a sculptor whose tools followed protuberances and hollows in music ... without reference to fixed formulas. The frame was music, not painting; the means choreography not mimicry or atmosphere."2 Like her brother, Nijinska received her dance training at the Imperial Theatrical Institute in St. Petersburg and participated in Diaghilev's 1909 Paris season of Russian opera and ballet (Fig. 22). As a member of the Ballets Russes during the pre-war years she performed a variety of roles created by Michel Fokine whose choreographic reforms-based on a vi- sion of fluid, expressive movement and a belief in dramatic and psycho- logical naturalism-left an indelible imprint. She also observed and as- sisted Nijinsky as he choreographed his first ballets, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Experiment Brill

THE CHOREOGRAPHIC CAREER OF BRONISLAVA NIJINSKA

Experiment , Volume 2 (1): 16 – Jan 1, 1996

Loading next page...
 
/lp/brill/the-choreographic-career-of-bronislava-nijinska-kipVVx13zR

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Brill
Copyright
Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1084-4945
eISSN
2211-730X
DOI
10.1163/2211730X96X00045
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Dancer and choreographer Bronisiava Fominichna Nizhinska (Bronislava Nijinska, 1891-1972) shaped her ballets as she shaped her life--independentiy, creatively, and with integrity. Initially inspired by her brother Vaslav Nijinsky and encouraged subsequently by impresario Sergei Diaghilev, she choregraphed more than eighty ballets, at least one of which-Les Noces (1923)-is an acknowledged masterpiece.' In a dis- cussion of this avant-garde classic created in collaboration with the com- poser Igor Stravinsky and the painter Natalia Goncharova, the historian Lincoln Kirstein wrote, "[Nijinska] attacked choreography as a sculptor whose tools followed protuberances and hollows in music ... without reference to fixed formulas. The frame was music, not painting; the means choreography not mimicry or atmosphere."2 Like her brother, Nijinska received her dance training at the Imperial Theatrical Institute in St. Petersburg and participated in Diaghilev's 1909 Paris season of Russian opera and ballet (Fig. 22). As a member of the Ballets Russes during the pre-war years she performed a variety of roles created by Michel Fokine whose choreographic reforms-based on a vi- sion of fluid, expressive movement and a belief in dramatic and psycho- logical naturalism-left an indelible imprint. She also observed and as- sisted Nijinsky as he choreographed his first ballets,

Journal

ExperimentBrill

Published: Jan 1, 1996

There are no references for this article.