Abstract
Abstract Settling in Hollywood where she opens a school, Nijinska presents a program of works at the Hollywood Bowl in the hope—never realized—of establishing a professional ballet company in Southern California. She travels frequently to New York to choreograph ballets for (American) Ballet Theatre, the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, and Ballet International, although the high cost of coast-to-coast travel causes her to lose many jobs. An inspired teacher (her students included Cyd Charisse, Maria Tallchief, and Allegra Kent) and much-admired choreographer, she restages a number of her older ballets, including Etude and Chopin Concerto, and choreographs new ones such as La Fille Mal Gardée, Snow Maiden, and Pictures at an Exhibition. However, she fails to form a long-term relationship with any of these companies, encountering competition not only from American choreographers but also Russian ones like Michel Fokine and George Balanchine, who have worked in the United States for many years. Homesick for Europe and speaking little English, she nevertheless takes out papers to become a US citizen. In the early 1940s she completes a short volume of reminiscence, “Diary of a Young Dancer,” which remains unpublished.
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