Advanced
Error loading page.
Try refreshing the page. If that doesn't work, there may be a network issue, and you can use our self test page to see what's preventing the page from loading.
Learn more about possible network issues or contact support for more help.
Title details for La Nijinska by Lynn Garafola - Available

La Nijinska

Choreographer of the Modern

by Lynn Garafola
ebook
1 of 1 copy available
Borrow Read a sample Read a sample
1 of 1 copy available
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 Exter, 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 it also reveals the sexism pervasive in the upper echelons of the early and mid-twentieth-century ballet world, barriers that women choreographers still confront.

  • Creators

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    February 1, 2022

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9780197603925

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9780197603925
      • File size: 27090 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Booklist

      July 14, 2023
      Dance historian Garafola gives us the first full-length biography of Bronislava Nijinska, the female choreographer of more than 60 ballets, whose decades of groundbreaking work have been overshadowed by the brief, but legendary, career of her brother, the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. Nijinska crossed paths and worked with many leading figures in early twentieth-century art, music, and dance, including Juan Gris, Maurice Ravel, and Josephine Baker, which makes for interesting and sometimes dramatic reading. Garafola's bibliography is extensive and her archival work (which included visits to the Library of Congress and the Jacob's Pillow Archives) is laudable. This is a significant work of dance history that finally gives "a major artist who was also a woman" her due. Devotees of dance will find much to applaud in this rich and fascinating book.

      COPYRIGHT(2023) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Formats

  • Kindle Book
  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Loading