Contributions

  • Nijinska, Irina - Contributor
  • Rawlinson, Jean - Contributor
  • Kisselgoff, Anna - Contributor

Publication

1981 - Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

136,500 words, Guess

Page Count

546 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780030209512
  • Open LibraryOL24722818M

Classifications

  • DDC792.8/2/092
  • DDCB
  • LCCGV1785.N59 A3 1981
and 2 more
  • LCCGV1785.N59.A3 1981
  • LCCGV1785.N6 N5713

Description

Bronislava Nijinska: Early Memoirs 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<U+2013>1972)<U+2014>Nijinsky's sister and herself a major twentieth-century dancer and leading choreographer of the Diaghilev era<U+2014>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.

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  • Bronislava Nijinska--early memoirsHolt, Rinehart and Winston1981

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