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	Nijinsky - MSN Encarta
		Nijinsky was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, of Polish parents, and studied at the Imperial Dancing Academy in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
		Nijinsky’s spectacular career ended in 1919, when he succumbed to schizophrenia, from which he never fully recovered.
		Nijinsky wrote about his inner conflicts and obsessions in four notebooks, which were published in heavily edited versions during the years after he dropped out of public life.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761564815/Nijinsky_Vaslav.html (295 words)

	Vaslav Nijinsky - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Nijinsky, Vaslav, 1890-1950, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer; brother of Bronislava Nijinska.
		Nijinsky is widely considered the greatest dancer of the 20th cent.
		Nijinsky developed a system of dance notation that was not deciphered until 1984; since then a number of his reconstructed ballets have been performed.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-nijinsky.html (314 words)

	Nijinsky II
		Racehorse, Nijinsky II was a son of Northern Dancer and Flaming Page[?] and a grandson of Nearco.
		Shipped to England, Nijinsky II was named champion two-year-old in England, as well as in Ireland.
		After that, Nijinsky II raced in the world-famous Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, at Longchamp, in Paris, France.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ni/Nijinsky_II.html (228 words)

	nijinsky
		The film gets to the heart of Nijinsky as the consumate artist and for that I call for shouts of bravo for a filmmaker who is not willing to compromise his film for a pile of Hollywood money and aims only to tell the story as it's meant to be told in a personal way.
		Cox is more interested in showing only what Nijinsky clearly expressed and felt and is buoyed by the fact that his subject has the courage to speak his mind from his heart and not hold back his true feelings in the wake of the tragic circumstances surrounding his life.
		Nijinsky in his diaries has taken exception with critics who don't take their audience into account and only react from their limited personal beliefs when they ignorantly slash away at things they don't grasp.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/nijinsky.htm (1633 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: Vaslav Nijinsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Both men and women were drawn to his powerfully expressive (and seductive) performances: poet Jean Cocteau advised the young Nijinsky to rouge his cheeks and color his lips, and the liberated Isadora Duncan asked him to father her child (an invitation he declined).
		Nijinsky’s third ballet, the orgiastic-nihilistic “Le Sacre du Printemps” (“The Rite of Spring”) is considered a landmark of Modernism.
		Nijinsky’s brilliant career as a choreographer and performer was cut drastically short by a nervous breakdown he suffered in his mid-twenties.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=900 (661 words)

	Vaslav Nijinsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		A Polish-Russian dancer and choreographer, Nijinsky studied at the Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg and was immediately engaged with a life-time contract as a member of the Maryinsky Theatre.
		Nijinsky had begun touring through the cultural centers of Europe as a guest star with the company in 1908.
		The unfinished diary that Vaslav Nijinsky wrote on the threshold to madness in St. Moritz in the winter of 1918/19 was first published in English in 1936.
	www.gregor-seyffert.de /Seyffert/2nijinsky.htm (404 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Nijinsky was simply the 'Jesus Christ 'of Flat Racing, atleast in terms of his popularity amongst the Racing public.
		Nijinsky had to be handled with the most meticulous patience, like a mother nursing or scolding a child.
		Nijinsky could certainly be a strong contender for the horse of the Century with Sea Bird, Ribot and Mill Reef or Brigadier Gerard.
	www.broken-wing.co.uk /racehorses/nijinsky.htm (2665 words)

	washingtonpost.com: 'Nijinsky' Nails the Dancer's Stunning Spin Into Madness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The legendary Vaslav Nijinsky was known as the God of the Dance, but as choreographer John Neumeier makes clear in his ballet inspired by the Russian dancer, his life was ruled by distinctly mortal forces: love, sex, creativity and deep, unglamorous pain.
		Nijinsky is one of the art world's most tragic figures, an extraordinary virtuoso who became an international celebrity in the early 20th century while dancing with Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
		Particularly notable is Anna Polikarpova as Romola Nijinsky, the dancer's wife.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A10890-2004Feb26?language=printer (1071 words)

	the MT Space - Nijinsky Through a Window
		Nijinsky rose to tremendous fame after meeting his mentor Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, a prominent figure in the St. Petersburg art world and impresario of the Russian Ballet.
		Reacting to the news of the marriage, Diaghilev fired Nijinsky from the Russian Ballet in a jealous rage.
		When Nijinsky was thirty he had a nervous breakdown, was diagnosed with schizophrenia and spent his remaining 30 years in and out of mental institutions.
	www.mtspace.ca /MTNijinskyInfo.htm (241 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Nijinsky, Vaslav
		Nijinsky was born on March 12, 1890 in the Russian city of Kiev, the son of Polish dancers who toured Russia as guest artists.
		Nijinsky was a brilliant ballet student; and in 1907, after his graduation, he joined the Imperial ballet as a soloist, a rare achievement.
		Nijinsky's ballets and the roles he danced are especially notable for their exploration of sexuality.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/nijinsky_vf.html (975 words)

	The Guide -- 'Nijinsky' Ballet Unfolds Into a Beautiful Mess
		Nijinsky’s life was governed by complicated relationships, and these relationships form the basis of the two-act ballet.
		As Nijinsky dances before a small crowd at a Swiss ballroom (recreated by Neumeier, who designed the sets and the costumes based on the sketches of Bakst and Benois), figures from his past, his ballets and his imagination start to overtake the stage.
		The underdeveloped choreography for her character in the first act was partly to blame, although her expressive solo in the second captured her intense pain and indecision in the face of her husband’s madness.
	www.thehoya.com /guide/031904/guide22.cfm (835 words)

	Vaslav Nijinsky Summary
		Vaslav Nijinsky died in 1950 and is buried in Paris.
		Leon Bakst - Nijinsky in the ballet L'après-midi d'un faune, 1912
		Nijinsky was one of the most gifted male dancers in history, and he became celebrated for his virtuosity and for the depth and intensity of his characterizations.
	www.bookrags.com /Vaslav_Nijinsky (2333 words)

	Nijinsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Nijinsky is well regarded as one of the best racehorses of the 20th century and was also one of the most popular with the British public.
		Nijinsky was by Northern Dancer and out of Flaming Page and was bought as a yearling by trainer and racing legend Vincent O'Brien in 1967 for £84,000.
		Nijinsky also faced Gyr in the race, the son of the legendary Sea Bird; one of the most talented colts to race in France in recent years.
	www.racinginfo.uk.com /horses/nijinsky.htm (1262 words)

	Enigmatic Nijinsky Still Enchants
		Nijinsky's journal, a quasi-mystical and undeniably disturbed document written on the eve of his 1919 breakdown, said that "Jeux'' was a veiled portrayal of Diaghilev's fantasy of a gay threesome.
		Nijinsky's era is on display in the exhibition "Nijinsky: Legend and Modernist,'' which is intended to demythologize him and clarify his career.
		Nijinsky inspired more artistic interpretations than any other dancer, and the exhibition showcases examples of these from public and private collections, along with memorabilia and previously unknown works.
	www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2000/08/25/051-print.html (1009 words)

	washingtonpost.com: 'Nijinsky': Tortured Soul
		The passages describing Nijinsky's apparent ability to absorb the essence of whatever man or beast or object he was called on to play also have a formidable magnetic pull on our imaginations.
		As it is, an audience may feel the vague misgiving that perhaps Nijinsky was less of a magician of movement than his notices would lead one to believe.
		A segment exploring Auguste Rodin's recruitment of Nijinsky as a model for his sculptures is intriguing and rife with sexual ambiguity; Davidson nicely channels the idea of Nijinsky totally enjoying others' taking pleasure in his body.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A62381-2003Aug28?language=printer (670 words)

	Vaslav Nijinsky
		The legend of Nijinsky relies not only in the fact that he was a virtuoso ‘dancer noble’ but also on the fact that the Ballet Russes fused a number of Art forms together…to produce a phenomenon.
		Nijinsky was probably the first male icon of the ballet.
		This it could be argued was part of his drawing power as a star and could be seen as a separate issue though clearly linked to his artistic achievements in terms of him 'speaking' to or from in part at least a culturally suppressed gay perspective.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /michaelmoor/vaslav_nijinsky.htm (647 words)

	Vaslav Nijinsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nijinsky died in a London clinic on April 8, 1950 and was buried in London until 1953 when his body was moved to Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris, France beside the graves of Gaetano Vestris, Theophile Gautier, and Emma Livry.
		Nijinsky writes of the importance of feeling as opposed to reliance on reason and logic alone, and he denounces the practice of art criticism as being nothing more than a way for those who practice it to indulge their own egoes rather than focusing on what the artist was trying to say.
		As a dancer Nijinsky was clearly extraordinary in his time, though at the end of her life his great partner Tamara Karsavina suggested that any young dancer out of the Royal Ballet School could now perform the technical feats with which he astonished his contemporaries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vaslav_Nijinsky (1679 words)

	Press Information: Exhibition on Vaslav Nijinsky
		Tragically, Nijinsky’s brief, brilliant career was cut short by his descent into mental illness in 1919 (he died in London in 1950).
		In all four ballets, Nijinsky rejected the classical ballet technique in which he excelled to explore new dance movement that was both powerful and emotional.
		Nijinsky first danced on the stage of the Maryinsky Theater during the 1899-1900 season when he was still a student and performed there until 1911.
	www.nypl.org /press/2003/nijinsky.cfm (1487 words)

	Amazon.fr : Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky: Livres en anglais: Waslav Nijinsky,Joan Ross Acocella (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Throughout, the anxiety and anguish are palpable, as Nijinsky writes about his disillusionment with his mentor and lover, Ballets Russes director Serge Diaghilev; his alienation from and distrust of his closest family members; and his fear of insanity and its consequential confinement.
		The noises of the household, the ringing of the phone, footsteps down the hall, smatterings of conversations overheard are all registered as a sort of accompaniment to his dance with madness and function perhaps as a final tether to reality.
		Nijinsky danced professionally for only 10 years (1907-1917), and his reputation as a choreographer was established by only three ballets, all choreographed for the Ballets Russes between 1912 and 1913.
	www.amazon.fr /Diary-Vaslav-Nijinsky-Waslav/dp/0787118311 (854 words)

	Nijinsky - The Hamburg Ballet - John Neumeier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Vaslav Nijinsky was born in Kiev, Russia, in 1889 and studied at St. Petersburg's Imperial Ballet School.
		From 1919 to 1946, Nijinsky was treated in mental institutions and later died in England in 1950.
		Neumeier's Nijinsky was evocative of a Picasso painting, of the uneven and unusual faces and figures, that exuded an emotion, rather than a likeness.
	www.exploredance.com /nijinsky022204.html (1128 words)

	Salon Books \| The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky
		The diary itself comprises the contents of four notebooks Nijinsky kept between Jan. 19 and March 4, 1919, when he had already danced his last performance and was living with his wife, daughter, mother-in-law and assorted hangers-on in a rented villa in St. Moritz, Switzerland, just before his first incarceration for schizophrenia.
		And Nijinsky's case is doubly problematic, since his total output was small, and only one of the dances that he choreographed for himself, "L'Apres-midi d'un faune," still survives in performance.
		Acocella thinks it entirely possible that in writing the diary Nijinsky hoped to create a work of literature, but she offers it, wisely, for what it is: a footnote to genius, the last, sad record of a legend.
	www.salon.com /books/sneaks/1999/02/25sneaks.html (587 words)

	Hamburg Ballet presents Nijinsky with choreography by John Neumeier
		Nijinsky, created in Hamburg in 2000, not yet seen in France, gave the Paris audience the opportunity to discover, or rediscover an excellent company, and to admire the choreographic skills of John Neumeier, Director since 1973.
		Anna Polikarpova, Otto Budenícek, Jirí Budeníceko in Nijinsky.
		Nijinsky's descent into schizophrenia is accelerated by the outbreak of war, and soldiers march slowly across the back of the stage, but soldiers who, curiously, were half naked under their jackets.
	www.culturekiosque.com /dance/reviews/hamburg.html (871 words)

	The Diaries Of Vaslav Nijinsky: the culmination of a career
		This is not the traditional television-style documentary that audiences have become used to: the film does not use a narrator, nor does it include the usual interviews with family, friends, colleagues and critics, intercut with shots of the dancer at work, at home, or walking down the street or along some deserted beach.
		In 1917 Nijinsky, together with his wife and daughter, retreated to St Moritz in an attempt to escape his overbearing mentor Diaghilev and to await the end of the war.
		Nijinsky has been hailed as one of the greatest dancers of all time yet his career was relatively short – he danced on the stage for only ten years.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/02/20/nijinsky.html (1285 words)

	Nijinsky - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Nijinsky, racehorse, winner of the Epsom Derby in 1970.
		Owned by Charles Engelhard, Nijinsky was ridden to victory by Lester Piggott in the fifth...
		Nijinsky, Vaslav (1890-1950), Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, born in Kiev of Polish parents, and educated at the Imperial Dancing...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Nijinsky.html (81 words)

	Amazon.com: Nijinsky: Video: Herbert Ross,Alan Bates,George De La Pena,Leslie Browne,Alan Badel,Carla Fracci,Colin ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The life story of the great dancer Nijinsky has been put into a box of soapflakes and churned with a lot of soft water to produce an awful lot of suds, but nothing much actually comes out clean and bright and we are left with annoying residue.
		The film also gives us the impression that Nijinsky went crazy because of his inability to come to terms with his sexuality as well as his break with Diaghilev which are, psychologically, simply not true at all.
		Perhaps in today's world Nijinsky could be treated with Lithium or other potent drugs for bipolar abnormalities or schizophrenia, but to suggest that he went crazy because of a broken love affair is just plain silly.
	www.amazon.com /Nijinsky-Herbert-Ross/dp/6301272307 (2107 words)

	Nijinsky - Hamburg Ballet - Alexandra Tomalonis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The role of Nijinsky is a killer; he’s on stage for nearly the entire ballet and his solos and duets have no rests.
		But having Nijinsky roll around on the floor and jerk about in huge, spiky leaps to show madness is clichéd, a stage reality as removed from life as pointing to the ring finger to indicate a desire to wed.
		There are a few times when Nijinsky is offstage, or has his back turned to a particular character, and there are some asides, particularly from Romola; she turns to the audience to show us she’s in love and can’t quite believe that this god of the dance returns her love, for example.
	www.danceviewtimes.com /dvdc/reviews/winter04/hamburg2.htm (1235 words)

	Nijinsky at Musee d'Orsay
		In the image on display, an obsidian-skinned Nijinsky, as the favored slave, his chest bare, is keeling, in agony and ecstasy, clutching Rubinstein's Sultana where her sex lives.
		And speaking of identification, a Jean Cocteau drawing of Nijinsky, identified in the wall text as being from 1913, may not be.
		Behind him is the barre and the shadow of the 51-year-old Nijinsky, but between this shadow and himself is a third shadow, that seems of a Nijinsky in his prime; the feet pointed, the head tilting back and looking skywards.
	www.danceinsider.com /f1025_1.html (2062 words)

	Colorado College \| News Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Tamara Nijinsky will present "Nijinsky, the God of Dance - My Father." Her daughter, Kinga Nijinsky Gaspers, will present "The Genius of Nijinsky, A Granddaughter's Perspective." The lectures are open to the public.
		Vaslav Nijinsky, a Polish-born Russian dancer considered to be one of the greatest dancers of all time, premiered this dance, “L’Apres-midi d’un Faune,” with the Ballets Russes on May 19, 1912 in Paris.
		Nijinsky performed the lead, and shared the stage with dancer Lydia Nelidova.
	www.coloradocollege.edu /news_events/releases/Feb2006/Nijinsky.asp (740 words)

	village voice > dance > Hamburg Ballet; Sydney Dance Company by Deborah Jowitt
		Vaslav Nijinsky's madness is as much a part of his legend as his enormous leap.
		(Nijinsky screaming counts at the dancers becomes the commanding officer whipping on his troops, but how much did revolution and a world war contribute to his mental state?) Even though Neumeier clearly knows Nijinsky's history, his ballet has the aura of MTV—phantasmagorical, eye-catching images dissolving into one another, swimming in and out of focus.
		In an erotic articulation of the master/protégé-cum-slave relationship of Diaghilev and Nijinsky, the impresario (Ivan Urban) lashes the soles of his lover's feet with his hair to goad him as he crawls along.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0409/jowitt.php (863 words)

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