Vaslav Nijinsky was almost immobile at the last moment of his real life. Only his expressive hands moved, turning magazine pages as he waited outside the office of a pioneer psychiatrist at a Zurich ...

John Neumeier’s Nijinsky must be one of the best-dressed ballets ever seen at City Center, especially given the fact that it’s about a massive mental breakdown. Then again, it’s Nijinsky’s breakdown, ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. In the early 20th century, Vaslav Nijinsky was considered the finest dancer of his generation.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. On RN this is The Body Sphere with Amanda Smith. This week, about two people who were deeply driven to ...

How can we separate the dancer from the dance? Nijinsky's art was a vanishing act, and his mystique depended on gestures that lasted only a second, like his leap through a window in The Spectre of a ...

Poor Nijinsky. Poor sad, mad, vanished Nijinsky. His career was astonishingly brief, the trail that was left in his meteoric wake so persistent it is hard to believe he danced for little more than ...

A few tantalising seconds of jerky black-and-white footage are all that survive as cinematic evidence of Vaslav Nijinsky’s balletic genius. But in her enthralling biography, Nijinsky, Lucy Moore helps ...