Bronislava Nijinska, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Bronislava Nijinska

Russian ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer

Date of Birth: 08-Jan-1891

Place of Birth: Minsk, Belarus

Date of Death: 21-Feb-1972

Profession: ballet dancer, ballet master, choreographer, theater director, music pedagogue, diarist

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Bronislava Nijinska

  • Bronislava Nijinska (; Polish: Bronislawa Nizynska [br??i'swava ?i'??j~ska]; Russian: ????????´?? ????´????? ????´?????, romanized: Bronisláva Fomínicna Nižínskaja; Belarusian: ?????????? ?????????, romanized: Branislava Nižynskaja; January 8, 1891 [O.S.
  • December 27, 1890] – February 21, 1972) was a Polish ballet dancer, and an innovative choreographer.
  • She came of age in a family of professional dancers.
  • Her career began in Saint Petersburg.
  • Soon she joined Ballets Russes which ventured to success in Paris.
  • She later met war-time difficulties in Petrograd and in turbulent Kiev.
  • In France again, public acclaim for her works came quickly, cresting in the 1920s.
  • She then enjoyed continuing successes in Europe and the Americas. Nijinska played a pioneering role in the broad movement that diverged from 19th-century classical ballet.
  • Her introduction of modern forms, steps, and motion, and a minimalist narrative, prepared the way for future neoclassical works.After serious home learning, she began at nine her lengthy formal training in Saint Petersburg, then the Russian capital.
  • She graduated in 1908 as an 'Artist of the Imperial Theatres'.
  • An early breakthrough came in 1910 in Paris when a member of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
  • For her dance solo Nijinska created the role of Papillon in Carnaval, a ballet written and designed by Fokine.She assisted her famous brother Vaslav Nijinsky as he worked up his controversial choreography for L'Après-midi d'un faune, which Ballets Russes premiered in Paris in 1912.
  • Similarly, she aided him in his creation of the 1913 ballet Le Sacre du Printemps. She developed her art in Petrograd and Kiev during the great war, revolution and civil war.
  • While herself in theaters performing, she worked independently to design and stage her first choreographies.
  • Nijinska started a ballet school on progressive lines in Kiev, and published her writing on the art of movement.In 1921 she fled Russian authorities.
  • She rejoined the Ballets Russes.
  • Diaghilev appointed her choreographer of this influential, Paris-based company.
  • Nijinska thrived, creating several popular, cutting-edge ballets to contemporary music.
  • In 1923, with a score by Stravinsky she choreographed her iconic work Les Noces [The Wedding].Starting in 1925, with a variety of companies and venues she designed and mounted ballets in Europe and the Americas.
  • Among them: Teatro Colón, Ida Rubinstein, Opéra Russe à Paris, Wassily de Basil, Max Reinhardt, Markova-Dolin, Ballet Polonaise, Ballet Theatre, the Hollywood Bowl, Serge Denham, Marquis de Cuevas, as well as her own companies. Due to war in 1939 she relocated from Paris to Los Angeles.
  • Nijinska continued working in choreography and as an artistic director.
  • She taught at her studio.
  • In the 1960s for The Royal Ballet in London, she staged revivals of her Ballets Russes-era creations.
  • Her Early Memoirs, translated into English, was published posthumously.

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