Kyra Nijinsky was the daughter of Vaslav Nijinsky and the niece of Bronislava Nijinska.
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10 Facts About Kyra Nijinsky
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Kyra Nijinsky's father Vaslav was a world-renowned dancer with the Ballets Russes in Paris.
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Kyra Nijinsky's aunt Bronia excelled in dance and was a leading choreographer, initially with Ballets Russes.
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Kyra Nijinsky's mother Romola de Pulszky was a socialite and author.
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Kyra Nijinsky was next in a Max Reinhardt production of Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska.
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Kyra Nijinsky studied with Nicolai Legat, a Russian ballet master.
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Kyra Nijinsky danced the part of the young girl in Le Spectre de la rose and of a nymph in L'Apres-midi d'un faune, ballets in which her father Vaslav had either famously danced, or both choreographed and danced.
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In 1936 at the Coronation Church in Budapest Kyra Nijinsky married Igor Markevitch, a Ukrainian composer and conductor who had been with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes during the late 1920s.
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Until 1958 Kyra Nijinsky lived in Rome where she worked as an interpreter in a fashion shop on Via Condotti.
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Kyra Nijinsky's father is a frequent subject, but I noticed all her paintings show him in ballet roles, never as himself.
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