Garafola Lynn author Barnard College. Dance (Barnard College) Barnard College. Dance (Barnard College) originator text Articles 2011 English In 1981 Bronislava Nijinska's Early Memoirs, the last autobiography by a major figure in Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, was published to near universal acclaim. However, as the choreographer's notes, drafts, and early autobiographical manuscripts make clear, Early Memoirs is a composite work, crafted by multiple hands and harbouring within itself alternative and even contradictory readings of the dominant story. In a field that privileges first-person testimony, the composite nature of most dance autobiographies is highly problematic, at once undermining their narrative authority and forcing recognition of what might be called their multivocality. Early Memoirs, like other volumes of dance autobiography, belongs both to Nijinska and to her interpreters, even if their interests do not always coincide. Dance 29 1 1 18 2011-05 http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/drs.2011.0002 http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:14594 NNC NNC 2012-09-04 12:41:30 -0400 2013-03-18 15:52:40 -0400 8616 eng