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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,
Experiment – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1996
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