Vaslav Nijinsky
Author | : Peter F. Ostwald |
Publisher | : Lyle Stuart |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780818405358 |
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Author | : Peter F. Ostwald |
Publisher | : Lyle Stuart |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780818405358 |
Author | : Waslaw Nijinsky |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1968-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780520009455 |
00 Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950), the "God of Dance," was on the verge of a mental breakdown when he wrote this diary as an outlet for his views on religion, art, love, and life. The diary provides unique insight into the inner life of a highly gifted but mentally disturbed creative genius. Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950), the "God of Dance," was on the verge of a mental breakdown when he wrote this diary as an outlet for his views on religion, art, love, and life. The diary provides unique insight into the inner life of a highly gifted but mentally disturbed creative genius.
Author | : Lucy Moore |
Publisher | : Profile Books |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2013-05-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1847658288 |
'He achieves the miraculous,' the sculptor Auguste Rodin wrote of dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. 'He embodies all the beauty of classical frescoes and statues'. Like so many since, Rodin recognised that in Nijinsky classical ballet had one of the greatest and most original artists of the twentieth century, in any genre. Immersed in the world of dance from his childhood, he found his natural home in the Imperial Theatre and the Ballets Russes, he had a powerful sponsor in Sergei Diaghilev - until a dramatic and public failure ended his career and set him on a route to madness. As a dancer, he was acclaimed as godlike for his extraordinary grace and elevation, but the opening of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring saw furious brawls between admirers of his radically unballetic choreography and horrified traditionalists. Nijinsky's story has lost none of its power to shock, fascinate and move. Adored and reviled in his lifetime, his phenomenal talent was shadowed by schizophrenia and an intense but destructive relationship with his lover, Diaghilev. 'I am alive' he wrote in his diary, 'and so I suffer'. In the first biography for forty years, Lucy Moore examines a career defined by two forces - inspired performance and an equally headline-grabbing talent for controversy, which tells us much about both genius and madness. This is the full story of one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century, comparable to the work of Rosamund Bartlett or Sjeng Scheijen.
Author | : Kevin Kopelson |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780804729499 |
This is three books in one: an impressionistic account (based on the aestheticism of Walter Pater) of the dancer's homoerotic career, a deconstructive analysis of his gay male reception (drawn from the semiotics of Roland Barthes), and an exploration of the limitations of that analysis.
Author | : Lauren Stringer |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0547907257 |
Composer Igor Stravinsky and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky, Russian comrades, worked together to bring a very different and new ballet to a Parisian audienceN"The Rite of Spring"Nand rioting filled the streets! Full color.
Author | : Hanna Järvinen |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2014-05-28 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1137407735 |
Tracing the historical figure of Vaslav Nijinsky in contemporary documents and later reminiscences, Dancing Genius opens up questions about authorship in dance, about critical evaluation of performance practice, and the manner in which past events are turned into history.
Author | : Geoffrey Whitworth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
An illustrated biography of Vaslav Nijinsky, this volume tells the story of how he became known as the greatest male dancer of the early 20th century. With his ability to perform en pointe, or on his toes as classical ballerinas dance, Nijinsky possessed talents many male dancers of the time did not. Toward the end of his career, he choreographed his own ballets.
Author | : Moira Shearer |
Publisher | : New York : Putnam |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
It was their sole encounter, but the sheer force and élan of Balanchine's personality, technique and genius held the young ballerina in total thrall from that day to this. As Moira Shearer observed his works over the years, she determined to set down Balanchine's extraordinary career and tempestuous life from a dancer's perspective. She researched his Russian youth, and the dazzling Diaghilev and continental years. She talked with key colleagues, ex-wives and impresarios as living background to her account of his hard-won triumphs with the New York City Ballet as the most innovative and important choreographer of this century. The story of Balanchine's life is here is full, the romantic destructiveness and willfulness along with the genius, but it is informal and distillate rather than compendious.
Author | : Richard Buckle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-10-15 |
Genre | : Ballet dancers |
ISBN | : 9781605985145 |
Vaslav Nijinsky was unique as a dancer, interpretive artist, and choreographic pioneer. His breathtaking performances with the Ballet Russe from 1909 to 1913 took Western Europe by storm. His avant-garde choreography for The Afternoon of the Faune and The Rite of Spring provoked riots when performed and are now regarded as the foundation of modern dance.Through his liaison with the great impresario Diaghilev, he worked with the artistic elite of the time. During the fabulous Diaghilev years he lived in an atmosphere of perpetual hysteria, glamor, and intrigue. Then, in 1913, he married a Hungarian aristocrat, Romola de Pulszky, and was abruptly dismissed from the Ballet Russe. Five years later, he was declared insane. The fabulous career as the greatest dancer who ever lived was over.Drawing on countless people who knew and worked with Nijinsky, Richard Buckle has written the definitive biography of the legendary dancer.
Author | : Richard Buckle |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2021-11-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1639360557 |
The intoxicating story of one of the greatest dancers in the history of ballet?and the paradox of his profound genius and descent into madness. Vaslav Nijinsky was unique as a dancer, interpretive artist, and choreographic pioneer. His breathtaking performances with the Ballet Russe from 1909 to 1913 took Western Europe by storm. His avant-garde choreography for The Afternoon of the Faune and The Rite of Spring provoked riots when performed and are now regarded as the foundation of modern dance. Through his liaison with the great impresario Diaghilev, he worked with the artistic elite of the time. During the fabulous Diaghilev years he lived in an atmosphere of perpetual hysteria, glamor, and intrigue. Then, in 1913, he married a Hungarian aristocrat, Romola de Pulszky, and was abruptly dismissed from the Ballet Russe. Five years later, he was declared insane. The fabulous career as the greatest dancer who ever lived was over. Drawing on countless people who knew and worked with Nijinsky, Richard Buckle has written the definitive biography of the legendary dancer.