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
Much like the 19th-century Impressionist movement that forever changed the art world through the genius of Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas and others, Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes of the early 20th century forever changed the dance world, through such artists as Vaslav Nijinsky, Michel Fokine and George Balanchine. As part of Milwaukee Ballet’s 50th-anniversary