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 ...

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A half century since his death, Vaslav Nijinsky is still the world’s most celebrated male ballet dancer. He last performed before an audience in 1919 (he died April 8, 1950), yet his legend ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The great Russian ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky recently leapt on to the British stage as a tantalising apparition conjured up by a sexually deprived young woman in the world premiere of Tennessee ...

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 ...