1911 ca, PARIS, FRANCE : The russian dancer and choreographer Bronislava Nijinska with V. Karnetzky in Polovtsian Dances from " Prince Igor " by Aleksandr Porfir'evic BORODIN at BALLETS RUSSES by DIAGHILEV, coreography by Michel FOKINE. Nijinska played a leading role in the pioneering movement that turned against 19th-century Classicism, which paved the way for neoclassical works to come. She was the younger sister of the renowned dancer VASLAV NIJINSKY (1888 - 1950).