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Balanchine's flight and the jealousy of Nijinska

(Posted on this blog on July 19, 2008.)
When George Balanchine was still in St. Petersburg after the Revolution of October 1917, the city was then called Petrograd he was already considered a "hippie" for its openness, inquisitive and thirsty, of course, could only cause wrongs with the Bolshevik authorities. He soon sensed, from which could be escaped from the "paradise" of the eternal bright future.

I felt about their world of ballet and art, a wall was falling he was going to imprison. The next trip of a Russian dancer but would not place 37 years later, when Rudolf Nureyev was "stayed" in Le Bourget airport in Paris.

The Commissioner for Arts and Education was created by Lenin just starting to ban what he saw as "deviations" art, around 1922, the same year also began mass deportations. No operator, no thinker who had a genuine need to express themselves, to expect nothing but repression and the best, the silence and the Bolsheviks. Balanchine

fully understand this policy of repression, because at the beginning of the decade of the 20 had made regarding the constructivists, and other avant-garde, including Malevich, Rodchenko, Tatlin, which would influence regard to abstraction and "geometric" fundamental culminating in his choreographic style. Several of those artists capitulated Leninist ideology. Balanchine soured on it, the flight was the only alternative.

lucidity is likely to have been upset by the early ITALIANO which caused Lenin. Balanchine was one in the crowd who listened when the Bolshevik leader gave his speech on the balcony of the palace of the prima ballerina assoluta Mathilde Kchessinska. (Lenin chose this place because it symbolized the Tsar, because of the hectic love life Kchessinska with the imperial family.) "I remember hearing it that night. He had gone with a group of classmates ... We all think that the man on the balcony had to be a lunatic " say.

With the only escape in mind, Balanchine managed in July 1924 that the authorities give the nod to his tour in Western Europe and three other dancers Alexandra Danilova, Tamara and Nicholas Efimov Gevergeva. They did what they could in Germany and London, until they came to Paris, where he was Sergei Diaghilev, and organized a hearing of the Soviets for the Ballets Russes. According to Serge Lifar

was he who admitted them into the Ballets Russes:

"I went to see the Soviet dancers had chosen freedom. Were four. I looked and saw that they were dancers of my generation and told Diaghilev, knowing nothing of his qualities, Diaghilev told: 'We have to take these young people. " And Diaghilev agreed. Bronislava Nijinska When he learned that I had helped to recruit these members to the company immediately Nijinska left ... because I had said was in the troupe Balanchine and Diaghilev commissioned him to part of creating it. "

course, Diaghilev, his vision of an eagle, grasped that Balanchine was much better choreographer Nijinsky's sister, and she also knew.

The same day that Balanchine was officially admitted into the company, Nijinska announced his departure.

Bronislava He added that perhaps also was a bit crazy, nothing unusual in his family.