Bronislava Nijinska--early Memoirs
Author: Bronislava Nijinska
Publisher: New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 648
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bronislava Nijinska
Publisher: New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 648
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bronislava Nijinska
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 644
ISBN-13: 9780822312956
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Now in paperback, Bronislava Nijinska: Early Memoirs--originally published in 1981--has been hailed by critics, scholars, and dancers alike as the definitive source of firsthand information on the early life of the great Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950). This memoir, recounted here with verve and stunning detail by the late Bronislava Nijinska (1891-1972)--Nijinsky's sister and herself a major twentieth-century dancer and leading choreographer of the Diaghilev era--offers a season-by-season chronicle of their childhood and early artistic development. Written with feeling and charm, these insightful memoirs provide an engrossingly readable narrative that has the panoramic sweep and colorful vitality of a Russian novel.
Author: Nancy Van Norman Baer
Publisher: Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author:
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022-04-06
Total Pages: 729
ISBN-13: 0197603904
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Eva Stachniak
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Published: 2017-01-17
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 038567855X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The lush, sweeping story of a remarkable dancer who charts her own course through the tumultuous years of early twentieth-century Europe. Beautifully blending fiction with fact, The Chosen Maiden plunges readers into an artistic world upended by modernity, immersing them in the experiences of the era's giants, from Anna Pavlova and Serge Diaghilev to Coco Chanel and Pablo Picasso. From their earliest days, the Nijinsky siblings appear destined for the stage. Bronia is a gifted young ballerina, but she is quickly eclipsed by her brother Vaslav. Deemed a prodigy, Vaslav Nijinsky will grow into the greatest, and most provocative, dancer of his time. To prove herself her brother's equal in the rigid world of ballet, Bronia will need to be more than extraordinary, defying society's expectations of what a female dancer can and should be. The real-life muse behind one of the most spectacular roles in dance, The Rite of Spring's Chosen Maiden, Bronia rises to the heights of modern ballet through grit, resilience and fervor. But when the First World War erupts and rebellion sparks in Russia, Bronia—caught between old and new, traditional and ground-breaking, safe and passionate—must begin her own search for what it means to be modern.
Author: Maria Tallchief
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2001-10-01
Total Pages: 33
ISBN-13: 0142300187
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Growing up on the Osage Indian reservation, Maria Tallchief was a gifted pianist and dancer. According to Osage tradition, women are not permitted to dance, but Maria's parents recognized her gifts and allowed her to break the rule. Then when Maria reached the age of twelve, her father told her it was time to choose between her two loves. Maria chose ballet. It was a decision that would change not only the course of her life, but the face of classical ballet in America. The fascinating story of Maria Tallchief's rise to become America's prima ballerina will captivate young readers.
Author: Peter F. Ostwald
Publisher: Lyle Stuart
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780818405358
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bronislava Nijinska
Publisher: London : Faber and Faber
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 9780571118922
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Waslaw Nijinsky
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1968-01-01
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780520009455
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →00 Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950), the "God of Dance," was on the verge of a mental breakdown when he wrote this diary as an outlet for his views on religion, art, love, and life. The diary provides unique insight into the inner life of a highly gifted but mentally disturbed creative genius. Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950), the "God of Dance," was on the verge of a mental breakdown when he wrote this diary as an outlet for his views on religion, art, love, and life. The diary provides unique insight into the inner life of a highly gifted but mentally disturbed creative genius.
Author: Mary Fleischer
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 904202285X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Embodied Texts: Symbolist Playwright-Dancer Collaborations explores the dynamic relationship between Symbolist theatre and early modern dance across Europe from the 1890s through the 1930s. Gabriele D'Annunzio's projects with Ida Rubinstein; Hugo von Hofmannsthal's pantomimes for Grete Wiesenthal; W. B. Yeats's work with Michio Ito and Ninette de Valois; and Paul Claudel's collaborations with Jean Börlin and the Ballets Suédois are studied in depth to shed new light on an evolving dance-theatre form within Symbolist culture. Buoyed by the era's heightened interest in the expressive qualities of the body, these playwrights were highly invested in the authority of language, yet were drawn to the capacity of dance to evoke spiritual or psychological states which words could not completely capture. In its belief of fundamental correspondences among the arts, Symbolism encouraged experimentation across disciplines, and this study traces interconnections among many of its significant figures including Max Reinhardt, Claude Debussy, Gertrud Eysoldt, Edward Gordon Craig, Bronislava Nijinksa, Isadora Duncan, Jaques Dalcroze, Darius Milhaud, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Mariano Fortuny, Terence Gray, George Antheil, Eleonora Duse, and Michel Fokine.