Nina Youshkevitch
Nina Youshkevitch (7 December 1920 - 3 November 1998) was a Russian-born American ballet dancer and teacher.
She was born in Odessa, Russia on 7 December 1920, the daughter of the playwright and novelist Semyon Youshkevitch. The family left Russia in 1921, settling in Paris, where she studied ballet with Olga Preobrajenska, Lubov Egorova, and Leo Staats, and graduated in piano from the Conservatoire de Paris.[1]
Youshkevitch was a protegee of Bronislava Nijinska, and danced in her companies from the age of ten, and emigrated to the United States in 1940.[1] In her later years, she reconstructed Nijinska's choreography and ballets with the help of her daughter, Irina Nijinska.[1]
She married Robert Johnson, and they had one son, who in 1998 was dance critic for The Newark Star-Ledger.[1][2] She died in Manhattan, and died at the Roosevelt Hospital, New York on 3 November 1998.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d "Obituary: Nina Youshkevitch". 14 November 1998. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
- ^ a b "Nina Youshkevitch, 77, Dancer in Nijinska Ballets and Teacher". The New York Times. 6 November 1998. Retrieved 14 July 2016.