La Nijinska

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.

Autorentext
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

Klappentext
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.

Inhalt
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

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