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La Nijinska is the first biography of twentieth-century ballet's premier female choreographer, shedding new light on the modern history of ballet, and recuperating the memory of lost works and forgotten artists, all while revealing the sexism that still confronts women choreographers in the ballet world.
List of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Transliteration and Russian Names
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Nijinska's Apprenticeship
- Chapter 2: Amazon of the Avant-Garde
- Chapter 3: Back from the Future
- Chapter 4: Where is Home?
- Chapter 5: Les Noces
- Chapter 6: Les Biches
- Chapter 7: Le Train Bleu and its Aftermath
- Chapter 8: A Free-lance Choreographer
- Chapter 9: Globalizing Modernism
- Chapter 10: Les Ballets de Madame Ida Rubinstein
- Chapter 11: A Choreographer for Russia Abroad
- Chapter 12: Les Ballets Russes de Bronislava Nijinska
- Chapter 13: On the Road
- Chapter 14: In Wartime America
- Chapter 15: The Final Act
- Chapter 16: Resurrection
- List of Works
- Illustrations Credits
- Archives, Collections, and Other Sources
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Lynn Garafola is Professor Emerita of Dance at Barnard College, Columbia University. A dance historian and critic, she is the author of
Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and
Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance, and the editor of several books, including
The Diaries of Marius Petipa,
André Levinson on Dance (with Joan Acocella),
José Limón: An Unfinished Memoir, and
The Ballets Russes and Its World. She has curated several exhibitions, including
Dance for a City: Fifty Years of the New York City Ballet,
New York Story: Jerome Robbins and His World,
Diaghilev's Theater of Marvels: The Ballets Russes and Its Aftermath, and, most recently,
Arthur Mitchell: Harlem's Ballet Trailblazer
Summary
La Nijinska is the first biography of twentieth-century ballet's premier female choreographer, shedding new light on the modern history of ballet, and recuperating the memory of lost works and forgotten artists, all while revealing the sexism that still confronts women choreographers in the ballet world.
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This book is an astonishing achievement. Nijinska, sister of tragic dancer-genius Nijinsky, emerges here as a larger-than-life heroine, an Amazon endowed with visionary talent, yet blocked at every turn by forces arrayed against an ambitious woman. It's an epic tale, based on impeccable sources, narrated with rare lucidity, set against a three-continent-wide panorama of European, American and émigré-Russian artists and impresarios, all chasing after this magical quality we now call Modernity.
