How To Use Nijinsky In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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A solo for Daniel Proietto, the eerie work recalled languorous images of Nijinsky (it was inspired by his drawings and paintings).
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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.
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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.
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At its controversial opening night Nijinsky's choreography was considered almost as shocking as the churning rhythms and clamorous orchestration of Stravinsky's score.
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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
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Vaslav Nijinsky rose to stardom as the golden slave in Diaghilev’s ballet, Scheherazade, appearing “in brown body paint, and grinning, and wound with pearls — not so much as a sex object but as sex itself, with all the accouterments of perversity that the fin-de-siècle imagination could supply: exotism, androgyny, enslavement, violence.”
Scheherazade Goes West
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With a pastiche of scores by Chopin, Schumann, Shostakovitch, and Rimsky-Korsakov, Nijinsky is a phantasmagoria.
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What we all need is to continue Romola Nijinsky's instinctive inclination towards connecting the similar yet disjoined, and then utilize these developments towards real contributions for the evolution of a culture's body of knowledge in the broadest scope possible.
Linda Constant: The Foundation of Movement: Cultural Diplomacy
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Bursting with color and energy, the almost-beyond-lavish pages of 'Ballets Russes' Assouline, 236 pages, $750 make a feast of these leftovers, re-creating mighty collaborations among artists such as Picasso, Braque, Matisse and Miró and choreographers like Nijinsky, Léonid Massine and Michel Fokine.
Photo-Op: Modernism à la Russe
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Or maybe it Michael Jackson stamping his Nijinsky onto Thriller -- Michael's American Schereazade -- where he retrofitted the 'epaulement, releve' and grand plie 'into the Moonwalk's reverse ballet, on Motown 25.
Barry Michael Cooper: Michael Jackson Agonistes: An American Pop'era In Three Acts
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He was a serious dance scholar and produced the standard works on Nijinsky and Diaghilev.
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Nijinsky's was about a mythological creature who encounters nymphs in a wood on a summer afternoon.
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It opens with Fokine's Le Spectre de la Rose, the 1911 ballet with which Vaslav Nijinsky legendarily reinvented the image of the male dancer, leaping on stage in a pink-petalled costume – athletically virile and exquisitely perfumed.
Men in Motion – review
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Many of his leading male dancers became his lovers — though Nijinsky was the most celebrated, there were also L é onide Massine and Serge Lifar.
Beauty of the Ballets Russes
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Bursting with color and energy, the almost-beyond-lavish pages of 'Ballets Russes' Assouline, 236 pages, $750 make a feast of these leftovers, re-creating mighty collaborations among artists such as Picasso, Braque, Matisse and Miró and choreographers like Nijinsky, Léonid Massine and Michel Fokine.
Photo-Op: Modernism à la Russe
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The dancers followed Nijinsky's count, too… and as Russian numbers above ten are polysyllabic - eighteen, for example, vosemnadsat - in the fast tempo movements neither he nor they could keep up.
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So they continued until Nijinsky had gone two lengths clear inside the distance.
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When Proietto returns to dance with them, his wary, hieratic stance is an instant evocation of Nijinsky as the faun himself.
Russell Maliphant Company
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He gave similar rings to Nijinsky and Massine, and in their case the message was clear: they were to remain faithful to him and to ballet.
Sergei Diaghilev: first lord of the dance
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After that, the Russian was as sure as ever and as stylish and cocky as Vaclav Nijinsky, the revolutionary ballet dancer his free skate is homage to.
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