The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art takes a bold, Nijinsky-like leap into the fall season with a spirited exhibition celebrating its role as an early moving force in the rise of modern dance in ...

Vaslav Nijinsky’s madness is as much a part of his legend as his enormous leap. Studying Baron de Meyer’s photographs to try to divine the great dancer’s charisma, we also, I think, look for signs of ...

About four years ago, I was looking through books in a second hand book store when I came across some about Vaslav Nijinsky, the great 20th century Russian ballet dancer whose dancing with the Ballets ...

Celebrity, visionary, muse: Vaslav Nijinsky changed dance forever with his explosive leap and his shockingly sensual choreography, before a dark descent into madness ended his career. John Neumeier, ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. 1. In 1909, Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev founds a dance company, Les Ballets Russes, in Paris.

THE great Australian director Paul Cox (“Innocence”), who once made a compelling film based on Vincent van Gogh’s diaries, sadly has less success with his latest exploration of tortured genius, ...

JOHN NEUMEIER can't shake his fascination with Vaslav Nijinsky. Nijinsky was the great early 20th-century ballet dancer who for a brief time between 1909 and 1915 captured the hearts of theatergoers ...

How can we separate the dancer from the dance? Vaslav Nijinsky's art was a vanishing act, and his mystique depended on gestures that lasted only a second, like his leap through a window in "The ...

When Vaslav Nijinsky’s brain cracked so that he could no longer recognize people or places, his friends had the idea of taking him once more to see the Diaghilev Ballet which he had helped to make the ...

The Joffrey Ballet, the celebrated Chicago-based dance company, has put together a meaningful and memorable lineup of works for its Winter Program, which kicks off on Wednesday, Feb. 18. Included in ...