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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...
...Bronislava Nijinska, Diaghilev alumna, sister of the great Vaslav Nijinsky, and currently No. 1 choreographer for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo...
...Manhattan last week there were more cheers than ever for Toumanova, Baronova, Riabouchinska, Lichine, Massine. High spot of the engagement was to come with the revival of Stravinsky's Les Noces, for which Nijinsky's sister Bronislava has traveled especially from Europe to direct the choreography...
Laura, Miss Edith Mason; Bronislava, Miss Clara Lane; Palmetica, Miss Rose Leighton; Poppenberg, Miss Hattie Belle Ladd; Symon Symonvitz, Mr. J. K. Murray; Janitsky, Mr. Thomas H. Persse; Gen. Ollendorf, Mr. William Wolff; Jailor, Mr. Arthur Wooley; Onophrie, Mr. Frank Ranney; 1st officer, Mr. Will H. Hatter; 2nd officer, Mr. Archie Arnold; Innkeeper, Mr. Charles Seribner...