Entertainment & Arts
Rehearsals are under way in Iowa City, Iowa, for a new production--utilizing the original “lost” choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky--of Stravinsky’s 1913 ballet “Le Sacre du Printemps.”
June 17, 1987
Books
I was frankly puzzled to see a recent book of mine, “Vaslav Nijinsky: A Leap Into Madness,” described (by reviewer Alex Raksin, March 3) as “psychobiography.”
May 26, 1991
VASLAV NIJINSKY: A Leap Into Madness by Peter Ostwald (Lyle Stuart: $19.95; 358 pp.).
March 3, 1991
Tamara Nijinsky, 74, is Vaslav Nijinsky’s youngest daughter and executive director of the Vaslav and Romola Nijinsky Foundation (named after her parents).
Nov. 3, 1994
When mental illness began to bring a premature end to Vaslav Nijinsky’s career early this century, the renowned ballet dancer turned to visual art for self-expression.
Movies
Although he gave his last performance in 1917, and no known film exists of his dancing, Vaslav Nijinsky remains an endlessly fascinating symbol of the 20th century artist as genius, celebrity, sexual outlaw and madman.
Oct. 5, 2000
You can’t get through a paragraph of press about Israel Galvan, one of the hot new innovators of the flamenco world, without hitting comparisons to the iconoclastic Russian dancer-choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky.
Aug. 15, 2003
THE DIARY OF VASLAV NIJINSKY: The Unexpurgated Edition; Edited by Joan Acocella; Translated from the Russian by Kyril Fitzlyon; (Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 304 pp., $30)
March 14, 1999
In life, Sergei Diaghilev and Romola de Pulszky both loved the great virtuoso dancer Vaslav Nijinsky and thought they’d won him.
Feb. 22, 2004
It started with Vaslav Nijinsky, the fabled Russian dancer who turned the ballet world on its head and then lost his own to madness by 1917.
April 28, 1990