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“An amazon of the avant-garde”: the ballet dancer and choreographer who started out in revolutionary Russia, worked in wartime Kiev, and then came to Hollywood in the thirties: Bronislava Nijinska, the long-neglected sister of the legendary dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. She had an amazing life. Lynn Garafola will explain; her new book is La Nijinska, Choreographer of the Modern.
By Start Making Sense Clips“An amazon of the avant-garde”: the ballet dancer and choreographer who started out in revolutionary Russia, worked in wartime Kiev, and then came to Hollywood in the thirties: Bronislava Nijinska, the long-neglected sister of the legendary dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. She had an amazing life. Lynn Garafola will explain; her new book is La Nijinska, Choreographer of the Modern.