By Kristen Lawson Bronislava Nijinska had a profound impact on dance as both an artist and teacher, but she has largely been forgotten. Everybody has heard of the legendary avant-garde choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky, yet his equally talented sister, “Bronia,” was a phenomenal dancer and choreographer in her own right. Dance historian and professor Lynn Garafola
By Barbara Quick What Disappears, my new novel set in the world of the Ballets Russes (Regal House), had a decades-long gestation. When I started it, the story was about my maternal great-grandmother and her family, Russian Jews in Kishinev in the time of the tsars. Dance had nothing to do with that first draft,
By Deborah Jones “A dancer’s life may be glamorous in many ways, but there’s a huge amount of laundry,” writes Leanne Benjamin in her autobiography, Built for Ballet, published by Melbourne Books. The sentence neatly sums up the highs and lows of her art. The adrenalin rush of performing, rapturous applause, and after-party mingling with