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Vaslav Nijinsky (French transcription; / Vatslav Fomich Nizhinskiy; December 28, 1889 - April 8, 1950) was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of Polish descent. Nijinsky was one of the most gifted male dancers in history, and he grew to be celebrated for his virtuosity and for the depth and intensity of his characterizations. He could perform en pointe
En pointe

Dancing on pointe, or en pointe , is the act of standing on the tips of the toes while performing Glossary of ballet terms from ballet. Also known as pointe work, it is performed using hard–toed and stiff-shanked pointe shoes....
, a rare skill among male dancers at the time (Albright, 2004) and his ability to perform seemingly gravity-defying leaps was also legendary.






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Vaslav Nijinsky (French transcription; / Vatslav Fomich Nizhinskiy; December 28, 1889 - April 8, 1950) was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of Polish descent. Nijinsky was one of the most gifted male dancers in history, and he grew to be celebrated for his virtuosity and for the depth and intensity of his characterizations. He could perform en pointe
En pointe

Dancing on pointe, or en pointe , is the act of standing on the tips of the toes while performing Glossary of ballet terms from ballet. Also known as pointe work, it is performed using hard–toed and stiff-shanked pointe shoes....
, a rare skill among male dancers at the time (Albright, 2004) and his ability to perform seemingly gravity-defying leaps was also legendary. The choreographer Bronislava Nijinska
Bronislava Nijinska

File:Bronislava Nijinska.jpgBronislava Nijinska was a Russian dancer, choreographer, and teacher of Polish descent,Nijinska was born in Minsk, the third child of the Polish dancers Tomasz and Eleonora Bereda Nizynsky....
 was his sister.

Biography

Vaslav Nijinsky Photo
Vaslav Nijinsky was born in Kiev, Ukraine, son of Polish dancer Tomasz Nizynski and Eleonora Bereda. Nijinsky was christened in Warsaw
Warsaw

Warsaw is the Capital and World's largest cities of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River roughly from both the Baltic Sea coast and the Carpathian Mountains....
. In 1900 he joined the Imperial Ballet School, where he studied under Enrico Cecchetti
Enrico Cecchetti

Enrico Cecchetti was an Italian ballet dancer, mime, and founder of the Cecchetti method. The son of two dancers, he was born in the costuming room of the Teatro Tordinona in Rome....
, Nicholas Legat
Nicholas Legat

Nikolai Gustavovich Legat , was a dancer with the Russian Imperial Ballet from 1888 to 1914 and was the main successor to the roles of the great ballet dancer, Pavel Gerdt....
, and Pavel Gerdt
Pavel Gerdt

Pavel Andreyevich Gerdt, also known as Paul Gerdt , was the Premier Danseur Noble of the Imperial Ballet, the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, and the Mariinsky Theatre for 56 years, making his debut in 1860, and retiring in 1916....
. At 18 years old he was given a string of leads. In 1910, the company's Prima ballerina assoluta Mathilde Kschessinskaya selected Nijinsky to dance in a revival of Marius Petipa
Marius Petipa

Marius Ivanovich Petipa was a ballet dancer, teacher, and choreographer. Marius Petipa is cited nearly unanimously by the most noted artists of the classical ballet to be the most influential balletmaster and choreographer that has ever lived ....
's Le Talisman, during which Nijinsky created a sensation in the role of the Wind God Vayou.

A turning point for Nijinsky was his meeting Sergei Diaghilev
Sergei Diaghilev

Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev , also referred to as Serge, was a Russian people art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes from which many famous dancers and choreographers would later arise....
, a celebrated and highly innovative producer of ballet and opera as well as art exhibitions, who concentrated on promoting Russian visual and musical art abroad, particularly in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
. Nijinsky and Diaghilev grew to become lovers, and Diaghilev, a controlling, dominant personality, became heavily involved in directing and managing Nijinsky's career. In 1909 Diaghilev took his dance company, the Ballets Russes
Ballets Russes

The Ballets Russes was an itinerant ballet company which performed under the directorship of Sergei Diaghilev between 1909 and 1929. Some of their places of residence included the Th??tre Mogador and the Th??tre du Ch?telet, though they worked in many countries, including England, the U.S.A., and Spain....
, to Paris, with Nijinsky and Anna Pavlova as the leads. The show was a great success and improved the reputations of both leads, as well as Diaghilev's, throughout the artistic circles of Europe. Diaghilev created Les Ballets Russes in the wake of this public response, and with choreographer Michel Fokine
Michel Fokine

Michel Fokine was a groundbreaking Russian choreography and dance.He was born in Saint Petersburg, as son of a prosperous, middle-class merchant and at the age of 9, he was accepted into the Saint Petersburg Vaganova Ballet Academy....
, made it one of the most well-known companies of that time.

Nijinsky's talent showed in Fokine's pieces such as “Le Pavillon d'Armide” (music by Nikolai Tcherepnin
Nikolai Tcherepnin

Nikolai Nikolayevich Tcherepnin was a Russian composer, pianist, and conducting. He was born in Saint Petersburg and studied under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory....
), “Cleopatra” (music by Anton Arensky
Anton Arensky

Anton Stepanovich Arensky , was a Russian composer of Romantic music, a pianist and a professor of music....
 and other Russian composers) and a divertissement “The Feast.” His expressive execution of a pas de deux
Pas de deux

In ballet, a pas de deux is a duet in which ballet steps are performed together. It usually consists of an Entr?e , Adagio , two Variation s , and a coda ....
 from the “Sleeping Beauty” (Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – ) was a Russian composer of the Romantic music era. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his Piano Concerto No....
) was a tremendous success; in 1910 he performed in “Giselle”, and Fokine’s ballets “Carnaval
Carnaval

Carnaval may refer to:*Carnaval , a piano suite by Robert Schumann*Carnival*Brazilian Carnival...
" and “Scheherazade” (based on the orchestral suite by Rimsky-Korsakov
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov , also Nikolay, Nicolai, and Rimsky-Korsakoff, was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as "The Five." Noted particularly for a predilection for folk and fairy-tale subjects as well as his extraordinary skill in orchestration, his best known orchestral compositions...
). His partnership with Tamara Karsavina
Tamara Karsavina

Tamara Platonovna Karsavina was a famous Russian ballerina who was most noted as a Principal Artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and later the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev....
, also of the Mariinsky Theatre, was legendary, and they have been called the "most exemplary artists of the time".

Then Nijinsky went back to the Mariinsky Theatre, but was dismissed for appearing on-stage during a performance as Albrecht in Giselle
Giselle

Giselle is a ballet by Adolphe Adam. It has 2 acts, 2 scenes, with a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Th?ophile Gautier and was originally choreography by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot ....
 wearing tights without the modesty trunks obligatory for male dancers in the company. The Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna complained that his appearance was obscene, and he was dismissed. It is probable that the scandal was arranged by Diaghilev in order that Nijinsky could be free to appear with his company, in the west, where many of his projects now centered around him. He danced lead roles in Fokine's new productions Le Spectre de la Rose
Le Spectre de la Rose

Le Spectre de la Rose is a ballet of the Ballets Russes based on a poem by Th?ophile Gautier. The music, by Carl Maria von Weber, was taken from his short piece Invitation to the Dance....
 (Weber
Carl Maria von Weber

Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a Germans composer, conducting, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romanticism school....
), and Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer, considered by many to be the most influential composer of 20th century music. He was a quintessentially Cosmopolitanism Russian who was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people of the century....
's Petrushka
Petrushka

Petrouchka or Petrushka is a ballet with music by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.Petrushka is a story of a Russian traditional puppet, Petrushka, who is made of straw and with a bag of sawdust as his body, but who comes to life and develops emotions....
, in which his impersonation of a dancing but lifeless puppet was widely admired.

Nijinsky took the creative reins and choreographed ballets, which slew boundaries and stirred controversy. His ballets were L'après-midi d'un faune
Afternoon of a Faun (ballet)

The ballet L'apr?s-midi d'un faune was choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky for the Ballets Russes, and first performed in the Th??tre du Ch?telet in Paris on May 29, 1912....
 (The Afternoon of a Faun, based on Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy

Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun is a musical composition for orchestra by Claude Debussy, approximately 10 minutes in duration. It was first performed in Paris on December 22, 1894, conducted by Gustave Doret....
) (1912), Jeux
Jeux

Jeux is the last work for orchestra written by Claude Debussy. Described as a "po?me dans?" , it was originally intended to accompany a ballet, and was written for the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev to choreography by Nijinsky....
 (1913), Till Eulenspiegel
Till Eulenspiegel

Till Eulenspiegel was an impudent trickster figure who originated in the Middle Low German German folklore and was disseminated in popular printed editions narrating the string of lightly-connected episodes that outlined his picaresque career, primarily in Germany, the Low Countries and France....
 (1916) and Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring, with music by Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer, considered by many to be the most influential composer of 20th century music. He was a quintessentially Cosmopolitanism Russian who was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people of the century....
) (1913). Nijinsky created choreography that exceeded the limits of traditional ballet and propriety. For the first time, his audiences were experiencing the futuristic, new direction of modern dance. The radically angular movements expressed the heart of Stravinsky's radically modern scores. Unfortunately, Nijinsky's new trends in dance caused a riotous reaction at the Théâtre de Champs-Elysées when they premiered in Paris. As the title character in L'après-midi d'un faune the final tableau (or scene), during which he mimed masturbation with the scarf of a nymph, caused a scandal; he was accused by half of Paris of obscenity, but defended by such artists as Auguste Rodin, Odilon Redon
Odilon Redon

Bertrand-Jean Redon, better known as Odilon Redon was a Symbolist painters and printmaker, born in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France....
 and Proust.

Vaslav Nijinsky Tombstone
In 1913 the Ballets Russes
Ballets Russes

The Ballets Russes was an itinerant ballet company which performed under the directorship of Sergei Diaghilev between 1909 and 1929. Some of their places of residence included the Th??tre Mogador and the Th??tre du Ch?telet, though they worked in many countries, including England, the U.S.A., and Spain....
 toured South America
South America

South America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere....
. Diaghilev did not make this fateful journey, because he was told by a fortune teller in his younger days, that he would die on the ocean if he ever sailed. Without his mentor's supervision, Nijinsky entered into a relationship with Romola Pulszky, a Hungarian countess. An ardent fan of Nijinsky, she took up ballet and used her family connections to get close to him. Despite her efforts to attract him, Nijinsky appeared unconscious of her presence. Finally Romola booked passage on board a ship that Nijinsky was due to travel on, and during the voyage Romola succeeded in engaging his affections.

Numerous speculations as to the true reason for their marriage have arisen, including the suggestion that Nijinsky saw Romola's title and supposed wealth as a means to escape Diaghilev's repression.

Romola has often been vilified as the woman who forced Nijinsky to abandon his artistry for cabaret
Cabaret

Cabaret is a form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue — a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting at tables watching the performance being introduced by a master of ceremonies, or MC....
 fare, her pragmatic and plebeian ways often jarring with his sensitive nature. In his diary, Nijinsky famously said of Romola "My wife is an untwinkling star ...". They were married in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the Capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southern shore of the R?o de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent....
 when the company returned to Europe. Diaghilev is reported to have flown into a jealous rage, culminating in Nijinsky's dismissal. Nijinsky tried in vain to create his own troupe, but a crucial London engagement failed due to administrative problems.

During World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
 Nijinsky was interned in Hungary
Hungary

Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
. Diaghilev succeeded in getting Nijinsky out for a North America
North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
n tour in 1916. During this time, Nijinsky choreographed and danced the leading role in Till Eulenspiegel
Till Eulenspiegel

Till Eulenspiegel was an impudent trickster figure who originated in the Middle Low German German folklore and was disseminated in popular printed editions narrating the string of lightly-connected episodes that outlined his picaresque career, primarily in Germany, the Low Countries and France....
. However, it was around this time in his life that signs of his dementia praecox
Dementia praecox

Dementia praecox is a term first used in 1891 in this Latin form by Arnold Pick , a professor of psychiatry at the German branch of Charles University in Prague....
 were becoming apparent to members of the company.

Nijinsky had a nervous breakdown in 1919, and his career effectively ended. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia
Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia , from the Ancient Greek Root schizein and phren, phren- is a psychiatry diagnosis that describes a mental disorder characterized by abnormalities in the perception or expression of reality....
 and taken to Switzerland
Switzerland

Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
 by his wife, where he was treated unsuccessfully by psychiatrist Eugene Bleuler. He spent the rest of his life in and out of psychiatric hospitals and asylums. Nijinsky died in a London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 clinic on April 8, 1950 and was buried in London until 1953 when his body was moved to Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris, France beside the graves of Gaetano Vestris, Theophile Gautier
Théophile Gautier

Pierre Jules Th?ophile Gautier was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic.While an ardent defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassian poets, Symbolism, decadent movement and Modernism....
, and Emma Livry
Emma Livry

Emma Livry was one of the last ballerinas of the Romantic ballet era, and a prot?g?e of Marie Taglioni. She perished from burn injuries when her costume caught fire during a performance rehearsal....
.

Legacy

Nijinsky's daughter Kyra married the Ukrainian conductor Igor Markevich, and they had a son named Vaslav. The marriage ended in divorce.

Nijinsky's Diary was written during the six weeks he spent in Switzerland before being committed to the asylum. Obscure and confused, it is obviously the work of a schizophrenic, but in many ways reflects a loving nature, combining elements of autobiography with appeals for compassion toward the less fortunate, and for vegetarianism and animal rights. Nijinsky writes of the importance of feeling as opposed to reliance on reason and logic alone, and he denounces the practice of art criticism as being nothing more than a way for those who practice it to indulge their own egos rather than focusing on what the artist was trying to say. The diary also contains a bitter exposé of Nijinsky's relationship with Diaghilev.

As a dancer Nijinsky was clearly extraordinary for his time. Towards the end of her life his dance partner Tamara Karsavina
Tamara Karsavina

Tamara Platonovna Karsavina was a famous Russian ballerina who was most noted as a Principal Artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and later the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev....
 suggested that any young dancer out of the Royal Ballet School could now perform the technical feats with which he astonished his contemporaries. His main talent was probably not so much technical (Stanislas Idzikowski could leap as high and as far) as in mime and characterization; his major failing was that, being himself unable to form a satisfactory partnership with a woman, he was unsuccessful where such a relationship was important on-stage (in, say, Giselle
Giselle

Giselle is a ballet by Adolphe Adam. It has 2 acts, 2 scenes, with a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Th?ophile Gautier and was originally choreography by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot ....
). In epicene
Epicene

Epicene is an adjective for loss of gender distinction, often specific loss of masculinity. It includes:* effeminacy ? a male with female characteristics,...
 roles such as the god in Le Dieu Bleu, the rose in Spectre or the favourite slave in Scheherezade he was unsurpassed.

While immortalized in numerous still photographs, no film exists of Nijinsky dancing. Diaghilev never allowed the Ballets Russes to be filmed. He felt that the quality of film at the time could never capture the artistry of his dancers and that the reputation of the company would suffer if people saw it only in short jerky films.

In popular culture

  • Nijinsky figures prominently in Colin Wilson
    Colin Wilson

    Colin Henry Wilson is a prolific United Kingdom writer. He first came to prominence as a philosopher and novelist. Wilson has since written widely on true crime, mysticism, and other topics....
    's first book The Outsider
    The Outsider (Colin Wilson)

    The Outsider is a non-fiction book by Colin Wilson first published in 1956.Through the works and lives of various artists - including H. G....
  • The race horse Nijinsky II
    Nijinsky II

    The racehorse Nijinsky was a son of Northern Dancer and Flaming Page, both winners of the Queen's Plate, and a great grandson of Nearco and Bull Lea....
    , was named after the dancer.
  • Nijinsky is the central speaker of Frank Bidart's poem The War of Vaslav Nijinsky.
  • Nijinsky is the title of the second solo album by French pop singer Daniel Darc
    Daniel Darc

    Daniel Darc is a France singer, who has achieved success with his band Taxi Girl between 1978 and 1986, and also as a solo artist. His most recent album, Cr?vec?ur, was released in 2004....
     (Bondage 1994)
  • Nijinsky is the focus of the T. Rex song "Nijinsky Hind", from the album Unicorn
    Unicorn (album)

    Unicorn is a 1969 album by British band T. Rex , comprising Marc Bolan and Steve Took . It reached number 12 in the United Kingdom charts....
    .
  • Nijinsky is widely regarded as the originator of the commonly used phrase "up here for thinking, down there for dancing".
  • Nijinski is the title of a poem by the Nobel laureate Giorgos Seferis
    Giorgos Seferis

    Giorgos or George Seferis was the pen name of Georgios Seferi?des was one of the most important Greece poets of the 20th century, and a Nobel Prize laureate....
     which appeared in the collection Tetradia Gymnasmaton.
  • Nijinsky's Diary is included in Henry Miller
    Henry Miller

    Henry Valentine Miller was an United States novelist and Painting. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of 'novel' that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism, one that is distinctly always about and expressive of...
    's list of "The Hundred Books That Influenced Me Most."
  • W.H. Auden references "mad Nijinsky" in his poem September 1, 1939.
  • "Nijinsky a-doin' the rhumba" is mentioned as one of the many images that can be seen on the body of Lydia the Tattooed Lady
    Lydia the Tattooed Lady

    "Lydia the Tattooed Lady", which became one of Groucho Marx's signature tunes, was written by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg, and first appeared in the 1939 in film Marx Brothers movie At the Circus....
     in the song popularized by Groucho Marx
    Groucho Marx

    Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx , was an American comedian and film star famed as a master of wit. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers and also had a successful solo career, most notably as the host of the radio and television game shows You Bet Your Life and Tell it to Groucho....
  • Nijinsky is mentioned by the popular goth rock band "Bauhaus" in several songs such as "Muscle in Plastic" and "Dancing"
  • Pittsburgh Steelers
    Pittsburgh Steelers

    The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. They are currently a member of the AFC North of the American Football Conference in the National Football League) ....
     broadcaster Myron Cope
    Myron Cope

    Myron Cope , born Myron Sidney Kopelman, was an American sports journalist, radio personality, and sportscaster who is best known for being "Color commentator of the Pittsburgh Steelers."...
     described a leaping touchdown catch by Rocky Blier in Super Bowl XIII
    Super Bowl XIII

    Super Bowl XIII was an American football game played on January 21, 1979 at the Miami Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida to decide the National Football League champion following the 1978 NFL season....
     as saying He looked like Nijinsky catching the ball. His partner Jack Fleming
    Jack Fleming

    Leo W. "Jack" Fleming was a sports announcer for the West Virginia Mountaineers West Virginia Mountaineers football and basketball teams. He also served as the announcer for the NFL Pittsburgh Steelers and the NBA Chicago Bulls....
     asked who Nijinsky was, which Cope responed "Why, he was a great ballet dancer."


Plays

  • Nijinsky: God's Mad Clown (1986)
Written by Glenn J. Blumstein. Productions: The Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C. 1987); Teatr na Malej Bronnej (Moscow - 1997-1999); Wystepy w Teatrze Bagatela (Krakow, Poland, 1999)).
  • (Amazon.com link)
  • Chinchilla (1977)
Written by Robert David MacDonald, Citizens' Theatre Company, Glasgow.

Film

  • Nijinsky (uncompleted film, 1970)
The screenplay
Screenplay

A screenplay or script is a written work especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing works....
 was written by Edward Albee
Edward Albee

Edward Franklin Albee III is an American playwright best known for works, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Zoo Story, The Sandbox and The American Dream ....
. The film was to be directed by Tony Richardson
Tony Richardson

Tony Richardson was an England theatre and Academy Award-winning film film director and film producer.Richardson was born Cecil Antonio Richardson in Shipley, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire in 1928, the son of Elsie Evans and Clarence Albert Richardson, a chemist....
 and star Rudolph Nureyev as Nijinsky, Claude Jade
Claude Jade

Claude Jade, byname of Claude Marcelle Jorr? was a French actress, best known by starring fictional character Antoine Doinel#Christine Darbon in Fran?ois Truffaut's films Baisers vol?s , Domicile conjugal and L'amour en fuite ....
 as Romola and Paul Scofield
Paul Scofield

David Paul Scofield, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire was an England award-winning actor of stage and screen. Noted for his distinctive voice and delivery, Scofield received an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for his performance as Sir Thomas More in the 1966 in film film A Man for All Seasons , a reprise of...
 as Diaghilev, but producers Albert R. Broccoli
Albert R. Broccoli

Albert Romolo Broccoli, Order of the British Empire , nicknamed "Cubby", was an Academy Award-winning United States film producer, who made more than 40 motion pictures throughout his career, most of them in the United Kingdom, and often filmed at Pinewood Studios....
 and Harry Saltzman
Harry Saltzman

Harry Saltzman was a Canada theatre and film producer best known for his mega-gamble which resulted in his co-producing the James Bond James Bond with Albert R....
 canceled the project.
  • Nijinsky
    Nijinsky (film)

    Nijinsky is a 1980 United States biographical film directed by Herbert Ross. Hugh Wheeler, whose screenplay centers on the later life and career of Vaslav Nijinsky, used the legendary dancer's personal diaries and his wife's 1933 book Life of Nijinsky as his primary source materials....
     (1980)
Directed by Herbert Ross
Herbert Ross

Herbert Ross was an two-time Academy Award nominated United States film director, film producer, choreographer and actor.Born Herbert David Ross in Brooklyn, New York, he made his stage debut as Third Witch with a touring company of Macbeth in 1942....
, starring George de la Pena
George de la Peña

George de la Pe?a is an United States ballet dancer, musical theatre performer, choreographer, and teacher.Originally trained as a concert pianist, de la Pe?a switched to ballet while studying at the High School for the Performing Arts....
 as Nijinsky, Leslie Browne
Leslie Browne

Leslie Browne is an United States ballet dancer and actress.She was born Leslie Brown in New York, the daughter of Kelly Brown and Isabel Mirrow....
 as Romola, Alan Bates
Alan Bates

Sir Alan Arthur Bates Order of British Empire was a United Kingdom actor of stage, screen and television....
 as Diaghilev and Jeremy Irons
Jeremy Irons

Jeremy John Irons is an England film, television and stage actor. He has won an Academy Award, a Tony Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, two Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards....
 as Fokine. Romola Nijinsky had a writing credit for the film.
  • The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky (2001)
Directed and written by Paul Cox
Paul Cox

Paulus Henriqus Benedictus Cox is an award-winning Australian-based film director.Born in the Netherlands, Cox emigrated to Australia. His teaching at Prahran College of Advanced Education in the 1970s influenced a number of photographers and film-makers including Carol Jerrems....
. The screenplay was based directly on Nijinsky's diaries and read over related imagery. The subject matter included his work, his sickness, and his relationships with Diaghilev as well as his wife.
  • Nijinsky 1912 (2008)
By Christian Comte

Sources

  • Albright, Daniel (2004). "Modernism and Music: An Anthology of Sources", p.19. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-01267-0.
  • Bergamini, John (1969) "The Tragic Dynasty: A History of the Romanovs," pg. 430. Konecky and Konecky. ISBN 1-56852-160-X
  • Buckle, Richard
    Richard Buckle

    Christopher Richard Sandforth Buckle, better known as Richard Buckle, was a lifelong devotee of ballet, and a well-known ballet critic. He founded the magazine Ballet in 1939, and revived it after the World War II ....
     (1971) "Nijinsky"
  • Buckle, Richard
    Richard Buckle

    Christopher Richard Sandforth Buckle, better known as Richard Buckle, was a lifelong devotee of ballet, and a well-known ballet critic. He founded the magazine Ballet in 1939, and revived it after the World War II ....
     (1979) "Diaghilev
  • Kopelson, Kevin
    Kevin Kopelson

    Kevin Kopelson is an American literary critic. He received a B.A. from Yale University, a J.D. from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from Brown University....
     (1997) The Queer Afterlife of Vaslav Nijinsky. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-2950-6
  • Parker, Derek (1988) "Nijinsky: God of the Dance"


External links


  • , New York Public Library.
  • (Amazon.com link)
  • at YouTube