La Nijinska

Choreographer of the Modern

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-07-07
Mått:229 x 165 x 58 mm
Vikt:1 111 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:696
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780197603901

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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

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La Nijinska reveals why some choreographers become canonized and illustrates the process's inseparability from external funding, gender, race, class, and ethnicity.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsTransliteration and Russian NamesPrefaceChapter 1: Nijinska's ApprenticeshipChapter 2: Amazon of the Avant-GardeChapter 3: Back from the FutureChapter 4: Where is Home?Chapter 5: Les NocesChapter 6: Les BichesChapter 7: Le Train Bleu and its AftermathChapter 8: A Free-lance ChoreographerChapter 9: Globalizing ModernismChapter 10: Les Ballets de Madame Ida RubinsteinChapter 11: A Choreographer for Russia AbroadChapter 12: Les Ballets Russes de Bronislava NijinskaChapter 13: On the RoadChapter 14: In Wartime AmericaChapter 15: The Final ActChapter 16: ResurrectionList of WorksIllustrations CreditsArchives, Collections, and Other SourcesNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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