Nijinska revival continues: restoring a lost work.(ballet revival)

From: Dance Magazine | Date: October 1, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

The Oakland Ballet is reviving 'Bolero,' a piece choreographed by the great Bronislava Nijinska in 1928. Nina Youshkevitch, who danced the piece with Nijinska's Monte Carlo company, is reconstructing the work.

To the mesmeric rhythms of Maurice Ravel's familiar Bolero, a lone woman at the center of a large table paces in place. Around the table, men watch her, fascinated as by a snake. It may sound like Maurice Bejart's ballet of seduction, but in fact it is the more highly stylized and complex 1928 work of Bronislava Nijinska, an almost austere tour de force of sexual ritual by the ...

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