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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Garafola, Lynn (1946-....)
Titre(s) : La Nijinska [Texte imprimé] : choreographer of the modern / Lynn Garafola
Publication : New York [N.Y.] : Oxford university press, copyright 2022
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXV-661 p.-[40] p. de pl.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Note(s) : "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 Exeter, 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
is also reveals the sexism pervasive in the upper echelons of the early and mid-twentieth
century ballet world and the barriers that women choreographers still confront"--Dust
jacket flap
Sujet(s) : Nijinskaia, Bronislava Fominitchna (1891-1972)
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-0-19-760390-1. - ISBN 0197603904 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47065847r
Notice n° :
FRBNF47065847
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Nijinska's apprenticeship ; Amazon of the avant-garde ; Back from the future ;
Where is home? ; Les noces ; Les biches ; Le train bleu and its aftermath ; A
freelance choreographer ; Globalizing modernism ; Les ballets de Madame Ida Rubinstein
; A choreographer for Russia abroad ; Les Ballets Russes de Bronislava Nijinska
; On the road ; In wartime America ; The final act ; Resurrection.
