... 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; ...

... all-too-solid body, bursting with good health. Here was no sawdust-stuffed puppet, ready to sag at a mere touch. Discussing Nijinsky's Petrouchka, Cyril Beaumont says, Only now and again did he make you aware that beneath this facade there was a tiny spark ...

... modern repertoire, the Joffrey Ballet's main attraction during its annual season at the City Centre Theatre was its revival of Nijinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps. Not seen anywhere since 1916, it was reconstructed and rehearsed by ballet historian Millicent Hodson ...

... Mark Tompkins was both choreographer and performer in La Valse de Vaslav, which was intended as a rather curious tribute to Nijinsky. As much as Tompkins seemed to want to tell us about Nijins- ky's insanity, so he tried to entertain us with his skill as ...

... enthusiasm, its broad humour being especially popu lar. One lady of intellect and taste in the audience, who saw everything Nijinsky ever danced, declared that she had thoroughly enjoyed the gentle simplicity of the scenario and the sophistica tion of the ...

... unyielding drama. Surely surroundings of this kind invite (costly) involvement with large numbers, something stirring, such as Nijinsky's Rite of Spring, or first class folk dance or even full scale classical ballet. The grandeur of guests from the Paris Opera ...

... war between the sparring partners. Later, however, Ashcroft reveals his lust by fondling the scarf on the floor a homage to Nijinsky's faun. The pace hots up when both performers scramble on the aerial contraption, deftly weaving their bodies through the ...

... and one section in the second half prompted more laughter than French and Saunders. The piece was initially inspired by Nijinsky, the latter half of whose life was so tragically repressed. Ward extends the dancer's plight into a theme in which the repressed ...

... remain the same throughout the evening; the disguise is blatantly transparent. This convention may have been acceptable before Nijinsky soared across the horizon and made the male dancer as powerful an attrac tion as the ballerina To-day the danseuse en iravesti ...

... captured the charming spirit of the ballet. Earlier Christopher Bruce came out of his retirement as a dancer to appear again in Nijinsky's L'apres-midi d'un Faune If his torso no longer suggested the sinewy zest of this sexually awakening half animal, half ...

... and style. Patrice Bart in the title role avoided any hint of feminity in the soft arm movements (designed ori ginally for Nijinsky) and he danced with an animal-like quality that somehow embodied the Young Girl's inexperienced and romantic view of men ...

... La Diva du Tennis FRENCH INSTITUTE TENNIS has been transformed into ballet before--for example Nijinsky's Jeux--but La Diva du Tennis is probably unique in paying tribute to a tennis star of more than 50 years ago. Suzanne Lenglen was French and a Wimbledon ...