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In 1947 the Marquis de Cuevas invites Nijinska to teach and choreograph for his new company based first in Monte Carlo and later in Paris. Anxious to reconnect with friends and to recover her scenery and costumes seized during World War II by the Germans, she accepts with alacrity. For the Marquis’ Grand Ballet she restages many of her own works, including two original ones, along with Diaghilev-era classics such as Petrouchka. She forms a close bond with the American ballerina Rosella Hightower and the Russo-French virtuoso Serge Golovine. She becomes friendly with the dance writer Françoise Reiss, a friendship that encourages her to return to her own memoir, which now focuses on her brother. In 1960 she removes her name from a splendid new production of The Sleeping Beauty when she sees the extravagant, outré designs by the Marquis’ nephew, Raymundo Larraín. Nearing seventy she returns to California, her career in ruins, her property lost, and her memoir still unfinished. |
