• Bronislava Nijinska (/ˌbrɒnɪˈslɑːvə nɪˈ(d)ʒɪnskə/; Polish: Bronisława Niżyńska [brɔɲiˈswava ɲiˈʐɨj̃ska]; Russian: Бронисла́ва Фоми́нична Нижи́нская,...
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    with the company. His elder brother, Stanislav, and younger sister, Bronislava Nijinska, known to intimates as Bronia, also became dancers; Bronia also became...
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    Karsavina, Olga Spessivtseva, Mathilde Kschessinska, Ida Rubinstein, Bronislava Nijinska, Lydia Lopokova, Sophie Pflanz, and Alicia Markova, among others;...
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    of her mother, Bronislava Nijinska, the dancer and choreographer. Irina Nijinska was born in St Petersburg, the daughter of Nijinska and dancer Alexander...
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    heritage. She was the daughter of Vaslav Nijinsky and the niece of Bronislava Nijinska. In the 1930s she appeared in ballets mounted by Ida Rubinstein,...
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    by Norma Lorre Goodrich (New York: Plume Books, 1995). Bronislava Nijinska, Bronislava Nijinska: Early Memoirs (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston,...
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    Poland, 16 Nov. 2017. 2018. "Bronislava Nijinska y el nacionalismo coreográfico de 'Rusia en el extranjero'" (Bronislava Nijinska and the Choreographic Nationalism...
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  • featuring the fairies were choreographed by Ballets Russes veteran Bronislava Nijinska. The film opened on October 30, 1935. It initially received mixed...
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  • Ernest Ansermet and danced by the Ballets Russes to choreography by Bronislava Nijinska. Several versions of the score have been performed over the years...
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    Boléro (category Ballets by Bronislava Nijinska)
    premiered at the Paris Opéra on 22 November 1928, with choreography by Bronislava Nijinska and designs and scenario by Alexandre Benois. The orchestra of the...
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    Les biches (category Ballets by Bronislava Nijinska)
    choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska and premiered by the Ballets Russes on 6 January 1924 at the Salle Garnier in Monte Carlo. Nijinska danced the central...
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    polio. At 12, she studied ballet in Los Angeles with Adolph Bolm and Bronislava Nijinska, and at 14, she auditioned for and subsequently danced in the Ballet...
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    choreography with the help of his sister, Bronislava Nijinska, who was herself a senior dancer. Bronislava would later choreograph her own ballets for...
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    sacrificial victim was to have been danced by Nijinsky's sister, Bronislava Nijinska; when she became pregnant during rehearsals, she was replaced by...
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  • Jasinski, Marian Ladre, Yurek Lazovski, and Nina Novak. Siblings Bronislava Nijinska and Vaslav Nijinsky were of Polish heritage, though Vatsa and Broni...
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  • prominent choreographers, including Michel Fokine, Antony Tudor, Bronislava Nijinska, and George Balanchine in many original works for the company. For...
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    (1924), Jeux d'enfants (1932), and Les Présages (1933); and in Bronislava Nijinska's Les Cent Baisers (1935). Baronova was born in Saint Petersburg (then...
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    Ballerina Cynthia Gregory. His dance teachers included Michel Panaieff, Bronislava Nijinska, Leon Varkas, Michael Brigante, Irina Kosmovska and Carmelita Maracci...
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    throughout high school. At age 12, Tallchief began to work with Bronislava Nijinska, a renowned choreographer who had recently opened her own studio...
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    on a Sicilian legend. Among his students were Desha Delteil and Bronislava Nijinska. Some of Fokine's early works include the ballet Acis and Galatea...
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  • entered the tutelage of Russian ballet dancer and choreographer Bronislava Nijinska in Los Angeles, and Vincenzo Celli and Anatole Vilzak in New York...
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    from the Conservatoire de Paris. Youshkevitch was a protegee of Bronislava Nijinska, who in 1930 brought her into the corps de ballet of the Opéra Russe...
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  • performed works choreographed by George Balanchine, Ashley Page, Fokine, Bronislava Nijinska, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Christopher Wheeldon, Matthew Hart, and William...
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  • to: Vaslav Nijinsky (1890–1950), ballet dancer and choreographer Bronislava Nijinska (1890–1972), dancer, choreographer and teacher Kyra Nijinsky (1914–1998)...
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    the Ballets Ida Rubinstein in 1928 and 1931 with choreography by Bronislava Nijinska. The music was also used for ballets of the same title, one by George...
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  • premiered at the Paris Opéra on November 22, 1928, with choreography by Bronislava Nijinska and designs by Alexandre Benois. Satie (1866–1925) was in poor health...
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  • music by Darius Milhaud, a story by Jean Cocteau, choreography by Bronislava Nijinska, stage design by Henri Laurens, costumes by Coco Chanel and a curtain...
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  • Ballet. They had a great influence on Ashton—most particularly Bronislava Nijinska's ballet Les biches. In 1930 Ashton created an innovative ballet,...
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  • Africa No Kyra Nichols Kyra Nichols 1958 United States No Bronislava Nijinska Bronislava Nijinska 1891 1972 Poland No Anna Nikulina Anna Nikulina 1985 Russia...
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    was Massine; it also featured the choreography of Michel Fokine, Bronislava Nijinska, Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, Agnes de Mille, Ruth Page and...
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