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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: La
    title: Nijinska
    sub title: choreographer of the modern
  name:
    name part: Garafola, Lynn
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxv, 661 pages, [40] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
  abstract: La Nijinska is the first biography of twentieth-century ballet's premier female choreographer. Overshadowed in life and legend by her brother Vaslav Nijinsky, Bronislava Nijinska had a far longer and more productive career. An architect of twentieth-century neoclassicism, she experienced the transformative power of the Russian Revolution and created her greatest work, Les noces, under the influence of its avant-garde. Many of her ballets rested on the probing of gender boundaries, a mistrust of conventional gender roles and the heightening of the ballerina's technical and artistic prowess. A prominent member of Russia Abroad, she worked with leading figures of twentieth-century art, music and ballet, including Stravinsky, Diaghilev, Poulenc, Alexandra Exeter, Natalia Goncharova, Frederick Ashton, Alicia Markova and Maria Tallchief. She was also a remarkable dancer in her own right with a bravura technique and powerful stage presence that enabled her to perform an unusually broad repertory. Finally, she was the author of an acclaimed volume of memoirs in addition to a major treatise on movement. Nijinska's career sheds new light on the modern history of ballet and of modernism more generally, recuperating the memory of lost works and forgotten artists, many of them women. But is also reveals the sexism pervasive in the upper echelons of the early and mid-twentieth century ballet world and the barriers that women choreographers still confront.
  table of contents: Nijinska's apprenticeship -- Amazon of the avant-garde -- Back from the future -- Where is home? -- Les noces -- Les biches -- Le train bleu and its aftermath -- A freelance choreographer -- Globalizing modernism -- Les ballets de Madame Ida Rubinstein -- A choreographer for Russia abroad -- Les Ballets Russes de Bronislava Nijinska -- On the road -- In wartime America -- The final act -- Resurrection.
  target audience: adult
  note: Lynn Garafola.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-ru---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Nijinska, Bronislava
      name part: 1891-1972
  subject:
    topic: Ballerinas
    geographic: Russia (Federation)
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Choreographers
    geographic: Russia (Federation)
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Ballets russes.
  classification: 792.8/2/092
  identifier: 9780197603901
  identifier: 0197603904
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 210716
    record change date: 20251006134604.1
    record identifier: in00004793117