附註:Includes index.
Mother and father -- My earliest memories -- From town to town across spacious Russia -- The great annual fair of Nijni Novgorod -- Coronation season: 1896 -- Volno: 1896 -- Moscow: 1896-1897 -- Novaya Derevnia -- Our first year in St. Petersburg -- Vaslav's entrance into the Imperial Theatrical School -- Vaslav's firt year in school: 1898-1899 -- 1899-1900 -- My first year in the Imperial Theatrical School: 1900-1901 -- 1901-1902 -- 1902-1903 -- 1903-1904 -- 1904-1905 -- Our second summer in Dudergoth -- 1905-1906 -- Summer: 1906 -- 1906-1907 -- Summer: 1907 -- Nijinsky: artist of the Imperial Theatres -- Nijinsky dances the blue bird -- Christmas: 1907 -- Early months of 1908 -- Summer of 1908: my first days as an artist of the Imperial Theatres -- My first season at the Maryinsky -- Sergei Pavolvitch Diaghilev -- La Saison Russe: 1909 -- The Maryinsky: fall season 1909 -- La Saison Russe: 1910 -- The Maryinsky: fall season 1910 -- Towards a new life -- First days in Monte Carlo -- Rome: 1911 -- Paris: June 1911 -- Premiere of Petrouchka: June 13, 1911 -- Our first season in London -- Late summer, 1911 -- London: fall season 1911 -- My first quarrel with Diaghilev -- With the Tchaikovskys at Bordighera: December 1911 -- Early months of 1912 -- From my notes and diaries -- Monte Carlo: spring 1912 -- The ballerina doll in Petrouchka -- Rehearsals of L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune in Monte Carlo -- Paris and London: 1912 -- With Vaslav in Monte Carlo -- Fall and winter season: 1912-1913 -- Preparation of Le Sacre du Printemps: London and Monte Carlo -- Paris: Saison d'Opera et Ballet May 1913 -- Towards the break with Diaghilev: July-August 1913 -- Autumn 1913 -- My meeting with Diaghilev: St. Petrsburg, January 1914 -- With Vaslav in Paris: January 1914 -- The Saison Nijinsky: London 1914 -- St. Petersburg: summer 1914 -- Reunion with Vaslav.
摘要:Bronislava Nijinska: Early Memoirs has been hailed by critics, scholars, and dancers alike as the definitive source of firsthand information on the early life of the great Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950). This memoir, recounted here with verve and stunning detail by the late Bronislava Nijinska (1891<U+2013>1972)<U+2014>Nijinsky's sister and herself a major twentieth-century dancer and leading choreographer of the Diaghilev era<U+2014>offers a season-by-season chronicle of their childhood and early artistic development. Written with feeling and charm, these insightful memoirs provide an engrossingly readable narrative that has the panoramic sweep and colorful vitality of a Russian novel.
