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... London this season is the Russian Ballet. Everyone who can do so will go and see Mesdames Karsavina and Nijinska and MM. Nijinsky and Bolm. They are incomparable artistes. We believe that the best of good dancing of the past was entirely second-rate compared ...
... The RUSSIAN DANCERS at COVENT GARDEN. NIJINSKY POISED IN MID-AIR DURING ONE OF HIS GRACEFUL BOUNDS DRAWN BY F. MATANIA The Russian ballet at Covent Garden has proved as popular this year as last. M. Nljlnsky Is if anything more gracefully agile than ever ...
... which they adopted or the bride adopted for them. Some daring costumes were devised for wedding M pages throughout the year. Nijinsky, the famous Russian dancer, seems to have been responsible for an epidemic of short black velvet coats and white leggings ...
... gesture they have adopted is stiff and local, but it fits well the artificial pattern-like character of the stage compositions. Nijinsky is a thing apart. He is, in a way, a far-off disciple of Isadora Duncan. He has only one or two movements but they are marvels ...
... is interesting to notice how his subjects are increasing in number. The most notice able omission to me in this gallery is Nijinsky the most surprising inclusion is Mr. Begbie. £Ane of Mr. Beerbohm's pictures tells how his victims may undo him by changing ...
... maintain, superior to those of the old regime 2)1 Mile. Adeline Genee. She recently con- ft eluded a very successful tour with Nijinsky j. in Vienna, where she created her own dance w episodes. It is rumoured that she will be M going to New York for six months ...
... should be an entertaining chapter on London and the Russian dancers, for in my own mind there is no doubt whatever that M. Nijinsky and his friends have been having the time of their lives in pulling the legs of the aesthetic sheep of this city. Let us ...
... and that reader would be hard to please indeed who did not find therein much to appreciate, much to remember. Nijinsky /7rVie Art of Nijinsky, by Geoffrey Whitworth (Chatto and Windus. 3s. 6d. net), is an admirable little monograph. The present book, ...
... London, each in turn capitulated without a siege. And the hero of it all, Waslaw Nijinsky, was hailed everywhere as the Vestris of his age. The part played by Nijinsky in establishing the success of the Diaghilew ballet is, indeed, undeniable. The delicacy ...
... carefully-studied danc ing in 'The Dancing Master The First Appearance of Nijinsky, the Famous Russian Dancer, in the Ballet, Les Sylphldes, at the Palace Theatre-- Nijinsky's Puck-like V fleetness of foot and the power of expressing the meaning as ...
... 18. Sir Henry Wood 19. Mrs. Siddons 20. Toby I 21. Mrs. Yates (dark wide-spread skirt) 22. Sheridan (statue in recess) 23. Nijinsky (with hand and arm raised) 24. Goldsmith 25. Socrates (statue in recess) 26. Adeline Genee 27. Lady Bancroft 28. Sir John ...
... place high old beams which had grown m French forests five centuries ago. There was sword-dancing by kilted men as nimble as Nijinski. and old songs of Scotland, which were blown down the wind of France DRAWN BY F. MATANIA, JANUARY, 1917 Copyrighted in the ...