La Nijinska: Choreographer of the Modern

by Lynn Garafola

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197603904
• ISBN13: 9780197603901
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 696 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 6.5" x 9.0"