What is Bronislava Nijinska?
{{Infobox person | name = Bronislava Nijinska | image = Harvard_Theatre_Collection_-_Saison_Russe_1913,_Petrouchka,_MS_Thr_965_(7).jpg | alt = | caption = Bronislava Nijinska in Petrouchka. From a playbill, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. Saison Russe. 23 May 1913 | full_name = | birth_name = Bronislava Fominichna Nizhinskaya |native_name = Бронисла́ва Фоми́нична Нижи́нская | birth_date ={{birth date|1891|01|08}} | birth_place = [[Minsk]], [[Russian Empire]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1972|02|21|1891|01|08}} | death_place = [[Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles|Pacific Palisades]], [[California]] | height = | occupation = [[ballerina]], choreographer, ballet teacher | years_active = | current_group = | former_groups = | dances = | spouse = Alexandre Kochetovsky<br />Nicholas Singaevsky | children = Leo Kochetovsky, Irina Nijinska | relatives = [[Vaslav Nijinsky]] (brother) | awards = National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame, 1994 | website = <!-- {{URL|website}} --> }} '''Bronislava Nijinska''' (8 January 1891 [old style 27 December 1890] – 22 February 1972) was a [[Russia]]n [[ballerina]], [[choreographer]], and teacher of [[Poland|Polish]] descent. Her parents were dancers. She was one of three [[sibling]]s and the sister of the famous [[ballet]] [[dancer]], [[Vaslav Nijinsky]]. When she was very young, Nijinska learned to dance at home. Her parents taught her [[Poland|Polish]], [[Hungary|Hungarian]], [[Italy|Italian]], and [[Russia|Russian]] [[folk dance]]s. Her father also taught her some [[acrobatics]]. This helped her later with her [[choreography]].<ref>Makaryk, Irena Rima, and Virlana Tkacz, eds. Modernism in Kiev: Kyiv/Kyïv/Kiev/Kijów/Ḳieṿ: Jubilant Experimentation. University of Toronto Press, 2010.</ref> She was only four years old when she made her debut in a Christmas program with her brothers in [[Nizhny Novgorod]].<ref>Nižinska, Bronislava. Bronislava Nijinska: Early Memoirs. Duke University Press, 1992.</ref> Nij