Early Memoirs
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Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few figures in the history of twentieth-century dance command as singular a story as Bronislava Nijinska — sister of the legendary Vaslav Nijinsky, and a towering choreographic force in her own right. Early Memoirs chronicles her formative years with an intimacy and candour that transports the reader directly into the glittering, turbulent world of Imperial Russia and the golden age of ballet, from the gruelling disciplines of the St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet School to the revolutionary stages of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Translated and edited by her daughter Irina Nijinska and Jean Rawlinson, with an introduction by celebrated dance critic Anna Kisselgoff, this edition presents an invaluable primary document of modernist performance culture. Nijinska writes with visceral immediacy, illuminating the personal sacrifices, artistic breakthroughs, and familial bonds that defined an entire era of Western dance. For anyone captivated by the intersection of art, family legacy, and revolutionary change, this memoir leaves one question hovering: how much of the twentieth century's greatest art was shaped by a woman history has only begun to reclaim?
Author: Bronislava Nijinska
Format: Hardback
Published: 1981, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few figures in the history of twentieth-century dance command as singular a story as Bronislava Nijinska — sister of the legendary Vaslav Nijinsky, and a towering choreographic force in her own right. Early Memoirs chronicles her formative years with an intimacy and candour that transports the reader directly into the glittering, turbulent world of Imperial Russia and the golden age of ballet, from the gruelling disciplines of the St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet School to the revolutionary stages of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Translated and edited by her daughter Irina Nijinska and Jean Rawlinson, with an introduction by celebrated dance critic Anna Kisselgoff, this edition presents an invaluable primary document of modernist performance culture. Nijinska writes with visceral immediacy, illuminating the personal sacrifices, artistic breakthroughs, and familial bonds that defined an entire era of Western dance. For anyone captivated by the intersection of art, family legacy, and revolutionary change, this memoir leaves one question hovering: how much of the twentieth century's greatest art was shaped by a woman history has only begun to reclaim?