Finding Aids to Archival Collections

This series contains a wide range of materials collected or created by Bronislava Nijinska and her family. It is divided into file groups and includes artwork by Nijinska and other unidentified persons, address books, biographical materials, clippings, contracts, exhibitions, family members, financial records, lithographs and prints, photographs and albums, posters, programs, and writings by others.

Biographical materials on Bronislava Nijinska include her birth certificate, ephemera, identification and travel documents, medical correspondence, photographs, United States citizenship papers, and articles about Nijinska. A script for the documentary "La Nijinska: a Legend in Dance" is also found here.

Exhibitions files contain documentation of two major exhibitions on Nijinska's life and work: "La Nijinska: a Dancer's Legacy" and "La Nijinska: Choreographer, Dancer, Teacher." Materials include correspondence, object lists, press, and exhibition descriptions.

Family members are grouped by individual and include personal papers, photographs, and published material on Nijinska's parents Thomas and Eleonora; her brother Vaslav Nijinsky, his wife Romola, and their daughter Kyra; children Léon Kotchetovsky and Irina Nijinska; Irina's husband Gibbs S. Raetz and their children George and Natalie Raetz; and, Nijinska's husbands Alexander Kotchetovsky and Nicholas Singaevsky.

Nijinska collected material on individuals significant to the history of dance in Europe. These eighteenth- and nineteenth-century letters are organized by individual under the file group "People," which also includes folders of material on Nijinska's friends and collaborators.

Photographs portray Nijinska's friends, students, and professional collaborators, and many of these images are inscribed to her. While some of the images found in this file group may feature Nijinska, photographs of her are primarily found in the "Biographical materials on Bronislava Nijinska" file group. Photographs of Nijinska dancing or of any of the dances she created are found in Choreographic Works.

Programs in the Business and Personal Papers series were collected by Nijinska or Irina Nijinska and do not feature the work of either. For programs featuring Nijinska as a performer or choreographer, see the Choreographic Works series. Writings in the Business and Personal Papers series were collected by Nijinska and cover dance, theater design, and other performance related subjects. See Writings for work created by Nijinska.