Bronislava Nijinska (1891-1972)
Bronislava Nijinska.
Biographical elements
- 1891: Birth in Minsk (Russia) on january 1891. Her parents,
Foma Nijinski and Eleonora Bereda, both were dancers, and her
older brother was Vaslaw Nijinski.
- 1900: Vaslaw and her go to the Imperial Ballet Scool
of Saint-Petersburg.
- 1908: she becomes a dancer of the Maryinski Theater
in saint-Petersburg.
- 1910: she joins Diaghilev's Ballets Russes
in Paris and dances Fokine's Carnaval
and Pétrouchka.
- 1911: Vaslaw and her leave the Maryinski Theater.
- 1914: she composes her first choreography, La Tabatière,
in Petrograd. Then she opens a dance school in Kiev.
- 1921: She leaves Russia and joins Ballets Russes the again, as a principal dancer. she also composes several ballets
for the company, such as Renard, Les Noces,
Les Tentations de la bergère,
Les Biches,
Les Fâcheux, Le Train Bleu and Romeo and Juliet.
- 1928-29: She creates Le Baiser de la Fée, Boléro and Aubade for Ida Rubinstein.
- 1930-31: She works for the Opera Russe de Paris and creates
Etudes chorégraphiques.
- 1932: She founds her own company and creates Variations
and Hamlet.
- 1937: She leads the Polish Ballet in Paris, and also works with
Max Reinhardt in Berlin and for the Markova-Dolin company.
She creates Concerto, Le Chant de la Terre and La Légende de Cracovie.
- 1938: She goes to the United States and opens a school in Los Angeles.
She also works for the American Ballet Theatre and the Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo.
- 1945: She becomes a ballet mistress of the Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas
and creates Les variations de Brahms.
- 1964: She restages Les Noces and
Les Biches
for the Royal Ballet.
- 1967: She leads the Buffalo Ballet.
- 1972: She dies on February 22, in Los Angeles.
Some of her ballets
(POB) means: in the repertory of the Paris Opera Ballet.