A Choreographer for Russia Abroad

Autor: Lynn Garafola
Rok vydání: 2022
Zdroj: La Nijinska ISBN: 0197603904
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197603901.003.0011
Popis: During the next several years, as the effects of the Great Depression deepen, Nijinska takes whatever freelance jobs offer themselves. She works at the Paris Opé ra, for director Max Reinhardt in Berlin, and the Vienna State Opera, where she walks out after only six weeks. But most of her jobs are for “Russia Abroad,” especially the Opéra Russe à Paris, which sponsors evenings of her ballets (including a revival of Petrouchka and the definitive version of her Bach ballet Etude) and which she views, mistakenly, as the nucleus of a new company under her direction. After nineteen years of adoring him from afar, she finds herself in physical proximity with the Russian singing star Fedor Chaliapin. Her obsessive love for him, which she links to her creativity as an artist, becomes the dominant theme of her diaries. In 1930 she publishes her treatise “Movement and the School of Movement” in the Austrian dance journal Schrifttanz.
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