... Nijinska/Nijinsky Programme PALAIS GARNIER IN CELEBRATION of the centenary of Bronislava Nijinska's birth, the Paris Opera presented a programme of two of her ballets coupled with two others created by her legendary brother, Vaslay Nijinsky. Of the two ...

... Nijinsky: Death Of A Faun Orange Tree WHO am I when no one is applauding? asks Nijinsky in David Pownall's one-man play, Death of a Faun, in which the dancer meditates on the death of Diaghilev. Diaghilev's funeral is in Venice but Nijinsky is in K ...

... Nijinsky- Death of a Faun Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House Vaslav Nijinsky was an inspired dancer, star of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, the impresario's lover, creator of Petrushka, choreographer of L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune and Le Sacre, which scandalised ...

... Vaslav Nijinsky was treated for insanity in a Swiss clinic. Such is the stark setting for David Pownall's new one-man play with dance, performed with sustained excellence by Nicholas Johnson in a veritable theatrical tour-de-force. Nijinsky, aware he ...

... Congress. The opening of Gadd's dance- drama was followed by a single matinee performance of Conversa tions with Diaghilev, Nijinsky, etc, Anton Dolin's one-man show, de vised for him by Maxim Mazumdar and so far tried out only once in Britain and once ...

... contribution to two of Nijinsky's seminal dance creations. Packed with more plums than Diaghilev would have put together in Paris or Monte Carlo, the evening opens with the familiar Les Biches, its wanton atmos phere choreographed by Nijinsky's sister and set ...

... Decline into madness HOLLYWOOD Nijinsky NIJINSKY attempts to trace the dancer's tragic decline into madness from his traumatic experience as a child* of a massacre in pre-revolutionary Russia, through arrival in Paris and seduction by Diaghilev, success ...

... nucleus for the Nijinsky foundation, tho immediate ob ject of which is in aid of Vaslav Nijinsky, lingering today in a twilight of the senses in a Swi*s sanatorium. To the devots, if Diaghileff was a sort of god of modern ballet, Nijinsky has been his prophet ...

... HALL NIJINSKY GALA On November 21, Leon Hepner and Alfred Delval, for Jan Cobel's A.P.B., Ltd.. presented a Nijinsky Gala, when for three hours a group of some of the most celebrated dancers in Europe performed popular ballets in aid of the Nijinsky Trust ...

... rather than on their authenticity. William G Lawrence's play. The Sabre's Edge, presents three legendary characters Vaclav Nijinsky, Sergei Diaghilev and Romola de Pulzsky. Charged with these volatile characters, Paul Blackwell, Malcolm Rennie and Justine ...

... CIRCLES OF THE MIND REX DOYLE'S Circles of the Mind is the second play in as manyyears to explore the nature of the dancer Nijinsky and the causes not so much of his phenomenal genius as a per former but rather of his mental breakdown. The central character ...

... ated with great dancers: gloves worn by Pavlcva, and her death mask; informal snapshots of Dia- ghilev and of Nijinsky; a tie worn by Nijinsky when in America; costumes and shoes used by Preo- brajenska. Pavlova, Genee, Mar- kova, Dolin and many others; ...