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In 1934, Nijinska travels to Hollywood to choreograph the ballets in Max Reinhardt’s legendary film A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The following year, in London, she choreographs Les Cent Baisers (The Hundred Kisses) for the de Basil company, a success that reintroduces her to the city’s ballet community. Tragedy strikes on the return to Paris, when her son is killed and her daughter seriously injured in a car accident that leaves Nijinska and her husband, who was driving, unharmed. Returning to professional life, she stages Les Noces to acclaim in New York, although de Basil, bowing to pressure from Massine, pulls it from the London season, a bitter disappointment for her. After a brief engagement with the Markova-Dolin Ballet, she becomes artistic director of the Polish Ballet, a government-sponsored organization for which she creates several Polish-themed works, including Legend of Cracow and Chopin Concerto, the first of many plotless or semi-plotless ballets to Romantic music, but is replaced by Leon Woizikovsky. When World War II breaks out in Europe in 1939, Nijinska sails with her family to New York. |
