30 Facts About Bronislava Nijinska

1. Bronislava Nijinska died on February 21, 1972, in Pacific Palisades, California, after suffering a heart attack.

2. In New York Bronislava Nijinska was invited to come teach in Hollywood.

3. In the theatrical world Irina Bronislava Nijinska associated with ballet companies to facilitate revivals of the choreographies.

4. Bronislava Nijinska took to revising Petipa's Russian version of La Fille Mal Gardee and staged the ballet with Irina Baronova and Dimitri Romanoff.

5. Bronislava Nijinska staged La Legend de Cracovie, "a new ballet of high merit" to music by Michal Kondracki.

6. Bronislava Nijinska had originally danced it barefoot wearing a tunic of her own design.

7. In the 1930s Bronislava Nijinska gave Alicia Markova 'creative sessions' in ballet, including instructions in her choreographed dances.

8. Bronislava Nijinska reprised her 1924 Les Biches for a performance by the Markova-Dolin troupe in 1937.

9. Bronislava Nijinska had presented at Teatro Colon in 1933 her ballet Le Baiser de la Fee [Kiss of the fairy], which she had first staged for Ida Rubinstein's Company in 1928.

10. Bronislava Nijinska staged Un Estudio Religioso to music by Bach in 1926, which she developed from her choreography Holy Etudes of 1925.

11. Bronislava Nijinska continued to choreograph, dance, and direct, working for ballet companies and institutions in Europe, South America, and the United States.

12. Bronislava Nijinska "took contemporary forms of locomotion as her theme", with music by Francis Poulenc, costumes and set by Exter.

13. Bronislava Nijinska had first met Exter in Kiev during war and revolution.

14. Bronislava Nijinska danced the male role of Lysandre, wearing a wig and clothes of the seventeenth-century.

15. Bronislava Nijinska achieved this in Les Biches; Balanchine was to do so latter.

16. Bronislava Nijinska "was 'powerful' and 'strange,' a dancer 'intoxicated with rhythm,.

17. Bronislava Nijinska took the role of the hostess of the house party.

18. In her memoirs, Bronislava Nijinska discusses Fokine's innovative "Dance of the Fauns".

19. Bronislava Nijinska earned her credits as the sole choreographer for nine works at Ballets Russes during the 1920s.

20. Bronislava Nijinska assisted her brother Vaslav in his creation of the ballet Le Sacre du printemps which premiered in 1913.

21. Bronislava Nijinska appeared in the Sergei Pavlovitch Diaghilev's first two Paris seasons, 1909 and 1910.

22. In 1908, Bronislava Nijinska was admitted to the Imperial Ballet.

23. Bronislava Nijinska quickly decided to return to Russia to recruit the cast, but Warsaw was where the experienced dancers were found.

24. Bronislava Nijinska speculated that hidden manipulations had motivated events, whereby Diaghilev had secured financing and the return of Fokine by getting rid of her brother Nijinsky.

25. In 1900, Bronislava Nijinska was accepted into the same state-sponsored school for performing arts.

26. Bronislava Nijinska implies that their small troupe prospered, but that is questioned.

27. Bronislava Nijinska was the third child of the Polish dancers Tomasz [Foma] Nijinsky and Eleonora Nijinska, who were then traveling performers in provincial Russia.

28. Bronislava Nijinska continued working in choreography and as an artistic director.

29. Bronislava Nijinska started a ballet school on progressive lines in Kiev, and published her writing on the art of movement.

30. For her dance solo Bronislava Nijinska created the role of Papillon in Carnaval, a ballet written and designed by Fokine.