“The story of the last years of Russian imperial ballet and the florescence of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes is familiar to most readers. . . . but Nijinska’s book stands out as the best of these. Unlike the majority of the Russian Ballet’s historians, Nijinska was near the nerve center of the Ballets Russes. . . . For serious students of the dance of the Diaghilev period, Nijinska’s accounts of the dances and dancing of the time prove invaluable.” — Tim Scholl, Slavic Review
"[These memoirs] are remarkable for their charm, their substance, and their transparent integrity. . . . [They] offer us . . . a firsthand account of what Nijinsky said and did on the stage and off, during the first twenty-five years of his life. When we close the book, we know him as never before." — John Russell , New York Review of Books
"A revelation on several counts. . . " — Marcia B. Siegel , Washington Post Book World
"Of unprecedented value are the insights [Nijinska] gives of how Nijinsky developed both his and her technique." — Julie Kavanagh , Times Literary Supplement
"With this posthumous volume of reminiscences, Bronislava Nijinska begins at last to emerge from the obscurity which has long enveloped her." — Dale Harris , Ballet News
Nijinska fills in details of her brother's childhood . . . and succeeds--where all the rest fail—in making him human." — Holly Brubach , New York Times Book Review
"Early Memoirs . . . is a book that not only paints a detailed canvas of ballet in turn-of-the-century Russia, but does so with an attention to fact and an appreciation of artistic issues that reflect the same analytical intelligence that Nijinska revealed in her own choreography." — Lynn Garafola, author of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes