Nijinsky

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• Today sexual-harassment suits might have shut down his balletic endeavors, for Diaghilev was inveterate about conscripting into romance the young men he made the leading male stars of his company, most notably Nijinsky and Massine. The Passions of an Impresario
• If the impresario suspected a repetition of the Nijinsky debacle, however, he could turn vindictive, as happened in 1920 when Massine took up with Vera Savina, one of the company's ballerinas. Sergei Diaghilev: first lord of the dance
• Nijinsky's later ballets: Le Sacre du Printemps, L'Apres-midi d'un Faune, Jeux, or the idea actuating the Jacques Dalcroze system of Eurhythmics seem to fall more into line with Concerning the Spiritual in Art
• Stravinsky would produce a second masterly score for the 1911 season when Fokine choreographed Petrushka, the sad, sinister tale of a puppet which provided yet another vehicle for the uncanny talents of Nijinsky. Sergei Diaghilev: first lord of the dance
• After three years with Dalcroze, first as a student and later as a teacher and demonstrator, she joined Serge Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes in late 1912 to train the dancers in eurhythmics and assist Nijinsky in using the technique to create his ballet Le Sacre du Printemps, with its complex score by Igor Stravinsky. Marie Rambert.
• A solo for Daniel Proietto, the eerie work recalled languorous images of Nijinsky (it was inspired by his drawings and paintings). NYT > Home Page
• As Nijinsky wrestled with the complexity of this score which was taking dance into unknown territory he was not afraid to push the boundaries of ballet as he sought to respond to the savage sounds of the orchestra.
• Of Hodson's three resurrections of Nijinsky choreography, the eighteen-minute Till, calling for more than fifty dancers and set to Richard Strauss's 1895 tone poem of the same name, may have the least evidence to stand on.
• At its controversial opening night Nijinsky's choreography was considered almost as shocking as the churning rhythms and clamorous orchestration of Stravinsky's score.
• Dressed in gauzy white tunics, they move with a girlish sweetness that identifies them as the nymphs from Nijinsky's L'Après-Midi d'un Faune. Russell Maliphant Company