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... doesn't she see that criticism's business with Astaire's acro batics is to de cide whether in their medium they are as good as Nijinsky's dancing or Ras- telli's juggling? Or, if you like, John Roberts's billiard playing or W. G. Grace's batting. Nobody in ...
... Comus is vivid, vital, electric and worthy of the finest mime (I have said it before and shall probably say it again) since Nijinsky. In the course of the piece he delivers two passages from the poem with a cadence and an under standing that are rarely found ...
... our Edwardian uncles did when Russian beauties eclipsed the racy frivolities of the Empire and Alhambra, and Pavlova and Nijinsky first twinkled in the heavens that incomparable Adeline Genee and nimble Fred Farren had previously adorned. Modern ballet ...
... Fielding's youth to an end. Henry Fielding; The Wind at My Back More Children's Books Nijinsky Finds Refuge in England. For the first time since 1913, Nijinsky, who retired from the stage in 1919, has returned to England, and is seen with his wife in ...
... and hers! But in the way that Walkley who found all male dancing morally repugnant could maie an exception in favour of Nijinsky, so on the understanding that Valentino is strictly an exception, one may quote about him the old lines of Carew He that ...
... at the Coliseum at Christmas, and that Narcisse was almost perfectly done, except that I missed the exotic personality of Nijinski as the youth. Petroushka, Les Svl&hides, Pabillotis, L'Oiseau d'Or, Carnaval, all these lovely ballets have been danced during ...
... in which the speed-mania of the times is recorded by bitter lyrics blared through a microphone, and is symbolised by Kyra Nijinsky's clever dancing on a stage restless with quivering shadows. Even six turns, meanwhile, would be too many for Streamline's ...
... The young prima ballerina was scared of Paris whose toast she was soon to be. Sympathetic, tragic is her word-picture of Nijinsky. The Revolution, with its curious impacts on the St. Petersburg theatre, then the escape from Russia, conclude the story ...