Appendix A: Works by Nirenska
- American folk suite (music: accompanied by Elizabeth Wilson Hughes, voice and dulcimer)
"The three sisters" (music: folk song adapted from "The old lord of the Northern Sea," from the John Jacob Niles Collection)
"Complaining old woman" (music: Elizabeth Wilson Hughes; text: incomplete folk poem, from the Vance Randolph collection)
"Yankee girl"
"If I had a ribbon bow"
"Maid freed from the gallows"
"Old woman, old man"
"Pigeons and pain" - Avenue of escape
"Brandy" (music: Béla Bartók)
"Champagne" (music: Claude Debussy)
"Absinth" (music: Aaron Copland) - Bag lady (music: Claude Bolling, Jean-Pierre Rampal)
- Barbaric suite (music: Priaulx Rainier)
"The dance of fear"
"The dance of longing"
"The dance of joy" - Dancer's dilemma (music: arranged by Kotowska)
- Departures (music: Heitor Villa-Lobos)
- Dirge ("In memory of those I loved who are no more") (music: Concerto grosso no. 1, by Ernest Bloch; costume designer: Terri Prell); second section of Holocaust tetralogy
- The divided self (music: Symphony no. 4, by Roger Goeb; performed by Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra)
- Double concerto in d minor (dedicated to Doris Humphrey; music: J. S. Bach; costume designers: Cheryl Koehler, Ellen Gray Denker), 1968
"Allegro"
"Adagio"
"Allegro" - Encircled (music: Heitor Villa-Lobos)
- Encounters and goodbyes (music: Sonata no. 3 [?], by Norman Dello Joio)
- The eternal fool ("We speak of a young girl, Pierrot and the moon") (music: Abba Nieman)
- Exits (music: Evelyn Lohoefer; quotations: Dylan Thomas; costume designer: Terri Prell)
"Rage, rage against dying of the light"
"Bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray... "
"Do not go gently into that good night" - Faith (music: Clague)
- Felina -- catty woman (music: Da Costa)
- The four horsemen of the apocalypse (music: Anton Webern)
"Humanity"
"Power"
"Plague"
"War"
"Death" - Greek washer-girl (music: old Greek round, arranged by R. Cavalho)
- Homeless child (Unwanted child) (music: Adda Heynessen)
- I found my grandmother dead (music: Arnold Schoenberg)
- In the sun (music: Béla Bartók)
- Italian concerto (music: J. S. Bach)
- Jubilee (musical revue; music: arranged by John Toohill)
- The lament (music: lullaby, early 17th century around the time of the Great Plague; vocals: Julia Humphries)
- Laughter (music: Eugène Bozza)
- Life (sometimes referred to as Whatever begins also ends) (music: Concerto grosso no. 1, by Ernest Bloch; costume designer: Terri Prell; quote: Seneca), first section of Holocaust tetralogy
- Life is so daily (music: Lukas Foss)
- Longing (music: "La plus que lente," by Claude Debussy; piano: Peter Frankel; costume designer: Terri Prell)
- Lullaby (music: Ignacy Jan Paderewski)
- Mad girl (music: Frederico Mompou)
- Mazur (national Polish dance)
- Menuet (music: Frédéric Chopin)
- The old and the new (music: traditional, vocals by Richard Tucker)
- Once over lightly (musical revue; music: arranged by Edward Cashman and Edward Shamaphy)
- Out of sorts (music: Claude Bolling)
- Peasant Lullaby (music: Polish folk tunes, arranged by R. Cavalho)
- Picnic (music: Virgil Thomson)
- La puerta del vino (The gate of wine) (music: Claude Debussy)
- "Rhythm in 3/4"
- "Rhythm in 4/4"
- Russia: the transparent apple and the silver saucer, "Snow in Siberia" (solo choreographed by Nirenska for Liz Lerman; all other choreography by Lerman)
- St. Bridget: stained-glass window (The patron of weavers and spinners) (music: French folk songs, arranged by Benjamin Britten)
- Sarabande for the dead queen (music: Claude Debussy)
- A scarecrow remembers (music: Adda Heynessen, Gorney)
- Shakespearean suite (music: Sergei Prokofiev)
- Shepherd boy (music: Greek folk song)
- Shout (music: "Hatred of the filthy bomb," by Lou Harrison); third section of Holocaust tetralogy
- Stars & planets (music: George Crumb)
- Stillpoint (music: "The unanswered question," by Charles Ives), 1990
- Strange visit (music: Béla Bartók)
- Studies in modern dance
"Floor swings"
"Primitive player"
"Birds"
"Isolation" - Sweet william (musical; music: by Edward Cashman)
- They never came back (music: G. Orville Trondson)
- Three sculptures (music: Evelyn Lohoefer; costume designers: Stan Fowler, Sandy Asay, Pola Nirenska; set designers: Stan Fowler, Alex Rounds), commissioned by Washington Dance Repertory
"The eternal insomnia of the earth"
"Amity"
"The knot" - Three women (costume designer: Gayle Behrman Jaster), 1987
I. (music: Anthony Davis)
II. (music: Miles Davis)
III. (music: Ella Fitzgerald with Duke Ellington) - Tired magician (music: William Russel, Henry Dixon Cowell)
- The train (music: "Suntreader," by Carl Ruggles); last section of Holocaust tetralogy
- Trapped (music: "Satyagraha," by Philip Glass)
- Trip (music: Modern Jazz Quartet)
- Two queens (The queen) (music: G. Orville Trondson)
- Vigil by the sea (Fated vigil)
"Waiting" (music: G. Orville Trondson)
"Lament" (music: song attributed to William Byrd) - Village beauty (music: Polish folk tunes, arranged by R. Cavalho)
- Web (music: Jon Hassell)
- Woman #1 (music: Anthony Davis) see also Three women
- Wounded (music: Concerto for piano and orchestra, "Allucinante," by Alberto Ginastera; costume designer: Terri Prell)