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 ...

The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky As read by Derek Jacobi, the famed Russian dancer-choreographer's musings -- penned at the end of his career and beginning of a 30-year withdrawal into mental ...

The legendary Vaslav Nijinsky was known as the God of the Dance, but as choreographer John Neumeier makes clear in his ballet inspired by the Russian dancer, his life was ruled by distinctly ...

Last summer and fall, local audiences saw four ballets that Vaslav Nijinsky either choreographed or originally danced. But the Ballets Russes legend himself spent just one week in Los Angeles, in ...

Better known as the wife of world-renowned dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, Romola is mostly remembered as the reason Nijinsky was institutionalized at the height of his career.

A newly published version of the journal Vaslav Nijinsky kept in 1919 restores eerie material, omitted previously, that documents the way the legendary dancer and choreographer lost his mind. An ...

I n the early 20th century, Vaslav Nijinsky was considered the finest dancer of his generation. During the conservative era in which he lived, his wild, sexually adventurous life that spilled from ...

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 ...

NIJINSKY: THEDIARIES OF VASLAVNIJINSKY THE great Australian director Paul Cox (“Innocence”), who once made a compelling film based on Vincent van Gogh’s diaries, sadly has less su… ...

To the late great Dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, the Afternoon of a Faun was a lazy, sensual episode in the life of a mythological goat-man; he danced it (to Debussy's famed music) in horns, tail and ...

Some highly creative people have themselves suffered from schizophrenia, including Vaslav Nijinsky, the legendary dancer and choreographer, and John Nash, the father of game theory. In 1912 ...