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Article Excerpt
Who were the women choreographers of the 20th century who laid the foundation for our current choreographers? Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Mary Wigman, Katherine Dunham, Anna Sokolow. But wait a minute--they were all in modern dance. Who were the choreographers in 20th-century classical ballet? Well, I suppose Ninette de Valois, Agnes de Mille, just possibly Birgit Cullberg, Janine Charrat, and Andree Howard, and--if she counts as classical--Twyla Tharp. But the one whom many would call the greatest of the 20th-century female classicists is Bronislava Nijinska. And all on the strength of two ballets, Les Noces and Les Biches, which American audiences may be familiar with through recent productions by such companies as the Joffrey and Oakland Ballet,...
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