Word: bronislava
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...company had drawn on the talents of such famed members as Michel (Petroushka) Fokine, Vaslav (Afternoon of a Faun) Nijinsky, Leonide (Boutique Fantasque) Massine, Bronislava (Les Noces) Nijinska. For the most part, in their choreography, they had developed luxuriant numbers flush with gestures, elaborate costumes and scenery. With Diaghilev's blessing. Balanchine launched a one-man revolution of the right: he went back to severe, classic principles. Instead of involved, fairy-tale plots, he shaved his storylines down to wisps of familiar, ancient legends. Thus began his continuing battle to reduce ballet to its fundamentals: the dance itself...
Schumann Concerto (world premiere), set to Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto in A Minor, with choreography by Bronislava Nijinska.* Concerto proved to be a showpiece for Ballet Theatre's top stars, Alicia Alonso and Igor Youskevitch, with little more to recommend it. A chorus of dancers flits onstage, poses while the principals leap and gyrate, trips offstage to line up for another round. Agreed the critics: Choreographer Nijinska's mild new ballet helps prove once again the superb talent of Dancers Alonso and Youskevitch...
...family moved from Oklahoma to Los Angeles when Maria was nine, so that the girls could continue their studies. Maria became a favorite pupil of Bronislava Nijinska, sister of Vaslav Nijinsky. In 1942 she moved East, joined the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. There she was spotted by Choreographer George Balanchine, who began casting her in his ballets, later married her. When he and Lincoln Kinstein organized the City Center company in 1948, he brought Maria along as prima ballerina. Since then, with Russian-trained Balanchine to supply the polish, she has been shining more brightly each season...