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Vaslav Nijinsky

September 2023

  • Bronislava Nijinska in the 'Bolero' by Maurice Ravel, circa 1928.

    ‘Why don’t we know more of her? It’s upsetting’: dance genius Bronislava Nijinska

    Created 100 years ago, Nijinska’s ballet Les Noces is a feminist masterpiece. Andrea Miller, who has choreographed a new version using Stravinsky’s music and art by Phyllida Barlow, hails a trailblazer

December 2019

  • Two views of Auguste Rodin’s 1912 sculpture of Vaslav Nijinsky, modelled in plaster and cast in bronze.

    Controversial Rodin bronze of Vaslav Nijinsky goes to V&A

    Sculpture depicts dancer in 1912 ballet condemned in Le Figaro for ‘erotic bestiality’

December 2017

  • Vaslav Nijinsky died in London in 1950.

    V&A museum acquires Nijinsky ballet costume designed by Léon Bakst

    London museum obtains outfit as part of collection passed to family of dancer’s sister, Bronislava Najinska

August 2015

  • Nijinksky's Last Jump

    Nijinsky's Last Jump at Edinburgh festival review – tender evocation of a tortured ballet genius

    Kally Lloyd-Jones’s new work is an impeccably researched and beautifully performed piece, a homage to the grace – and eventual downfall – of Vaslav Nijinsky

July 2015

  • Letter to a Man.

    Mikhail Baryshnikov: why I finally agreed to play Nijinsky

    After being asked more than 15 times over the years to play the role of Diaghilev’s provocative virtuoso, the Russian dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov has finally taken a leap of faith. So what persuaded him to do it?

April 2014

  • Uma Thurman in Kill Bil

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    Astaire's tap dancing? Zidane's sublime passing? Thurman's stylish acting? Let inspiration leap and vote with your feet in this week's song theme, says Peter Kimpton

March 2014

  • WW1 british troops over the top battle of somme 1916

    Did artists foresee the first world war?

    In the years before the Great War, artists from Stravinsky to Picasso started rebelling against the old order. Perhaps they already sensed that a catastrophic change was on its way, writes Margaret MacMillan

June 2013

May 2013

  • Scenes from Ballet "The Rite of Spring"

    Rite that caused riots: celebrating 100 years of The Rite of Spring

  • Tero Saarinen

    Dublin dance festival 2013: Stravinsky Evening – review

  • Nijinsky in Afternoon of a Faun, c1912.

    Nijinsky: A Life by Lucy Moore – review

  • Vaslav Nijinsky

    Nijinsky by Lucy Moore – review

April 2013

  • Russian Ballets At Paris In 1913

    The Rite of Spring – a rude awakening

  • Michael Keegan-Dolan’s 2009 version of the Rite

    The Rite of Spring at Sadler's Wells: 'It takes you to so many places'

February 2013

  • A 2002 version of The Rite Of Spring by Ballet Preljocaj

    The Rest Is Noise festival
    The Rite of Spring: 'The work of a madman'

    It is one of the great works of the 20th century, a ballet so revolutionary it is said to have caused a riot at its premiere. But is Stravinsky's Rite of Spring all it was claimed to be? As the work's centenary is celebrated, Tom Service separates fact from fiction

August 2011

  • Xander Parish in Chopiniana

    Theatre blog
    Xander Parish: the Brit who ran off to join the Mariinsky Ballet

    Luke Jennings: A British dancer has emerged from the shadows of the Royal Ballet to star in the legendary Russian company's Chopiniana – and it's a scandal he wasn't identified before

February 2011

  • ballet russes video still

    Theatre blog
    A few small steps from Ballets Russes ... one giant leap for dance historians

    Luke Jennings: This 30-second scrap of film showing Diaghilev's famed Ballets Russes in action represents one of dance's great discoveries

September 2010

  • Russell Maliphant's AfterLight

    Russell Maliphant Company

    Sadler's Wells, London
    The work's rolling sculptural style is very much Maliphant's own, but images of Vaslav Nijinsky are refracted through the choreography, writes, Judith Mackrell

March 2010

  • Richard Alston Dance Company

    Richard Alston Dance Company

    Sadler's Wells, London
    Alston's stirringly musical programme turns familiar scores into something exhilarating and new, writes Judith Mackrell

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