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The War of Vaslav Nijinsky: A Ballet Legend's Internal Struggle
The name Vaslav Nijinsky conjures images of breathtaking leaps, unparalleled grace, and revolutionary choreography. But behind the dazzling brilliance of this legendary dancer lay a tumultuous inner world, a silent battle fought not on a stage, but within the confines of his own mind. This post delves into the "war" within Vaslav Nijinsky – the conflict between his artistic genius, his personal demons, and the societal pressures that ultimately contributed to his tragic downfall. We'll explore his life, his groundbreaking work, his descent into mental illness, and the lasting legacy of this enigmatic figure.
H2: The Rise of a Ballet Prodigy
Nijinsky's early life was marked by intense discipline and prodigious talent. Born in Kiev in 1889, he displayed an innate gift for dance from a young age. His rigorous training under the watchful eye of his father and later at the Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg honed his physical prowess and instilled in him an unwavering dedication to his craft. He quickly rose through the ranks, captivating audiences with his athleticism and expressive artistry. His unique style, defying the conventions of classical ballet, foreshadowed the revolutionary changes he would bring to the world of dance.
H2: Revolutionizing Dance: Nijinsky's Innovative Choreography
Nijinsky's collaboration with Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes marked a pivotal moment in dance history. Diaghilev recognized Nijinsky's extraordinary talent and potential for innovation, providing him with the platform to break free from established norms. Nijinsky's choreographic works, such as L'après-midi d'un faune (The Afternoon of a Faun) and Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), were met with both rapturous applause and vehement disapproval. His radical departures from traditional ballet, incorporating elements of modern dance and primal movement, were shocking and transformative, forever altering the landscape of choreography. These pieces, though controversial at their premieres, are now considered masterpieces, showcasing Nijinsky’s revolutionary vision.
H3: The Controversy of Le Sacre du printemps
The premiere of Le Sacre du printemps in 1913 is legendary for its chaotic reception. The audience, unprepared for the jarring rhythms, unconventional movements, and pagan themes of Stravinsky's score and Nijinsky's choreography, erupted in boos and hisses. This tumultuous event, however, cemented Nijinsky's status as a radical innovator, willing to challenge established artistic boundaries, regardless of the consequences. The controversy surrounding Le Sacre highlights Nijinsky’s relentless pursuit of artistic expression, even at the risk of alienating his audience.
H2: The Crumbling Facade: Nijinsky's Mental Illness
Behind the dazzling performances and groundbreaking creations, Nijinsky's mental health was steadily deteriorating. The pressures of fame, the intense creative demands, and potentially underlying pre-existing conditions culminated in a severe mental breakdown. His diaries, filled with cryptic entries and fragmented thoughts, offer glimpses into the turmoil he experienced. The exact nature of his illness remains debated by historians and medical professionals, with diagnoses ranging from schizophrenia to bipolar disorder. His increasingly erratic behavior and delusions signaled a tragic decline.
H3: The Impact of Personal Relationships
Nijinsky's complicated personal relationships, particularly his marriage to Romola de Pulszky, also played a significant role in his unraveling. The strain of their relationship, coupled with the pressures of his career, likely exacerbated his mental health struggles. While Romola remained devoted to him throughout his illness, their dynamic was complex and contributed to the overall turmoil of his life.
H2: The Legacy of Vaslav Nijinsky
Despite his tragic fate, Vaslav Nijinsky's impact on the world of dance remains undeniable. His innovative choreography, his breathtaking technique, and his uncompromising artistic vision continue to inspire generations of dancers and choreographers. His story serves as a poignant reminder of the fragility of genius and the human cost of relentless artistic pursuit. His life, though marked by immense suffering, left an indelible mark on the history of art, reminding us that even amidst personal struggles, greatness can still emerge.
Conclusion:
The "war" within Vaslav Nijinsky was a complex and tragic struggle, a testament to the immense pressures faced by a creative genius. His life, though cut short by mental illness, stands as a powerful testament to the transformative power of art and the enduring legacy of a dancer who dared to challenge conventions and redefine the boundaries of ballet. His story continues to resonate, reminding us of the importance of empathy, understanding, and the fragility of the human spirit.
FAQs:
1. What specific mental illness did Nijinsky suffer from? The precise diagnosis remains uncertain, with various theories ranging from schizophrenia to bipolar disorder. His diaries offer glimpses into his inner turmoil but don't provide a definitive medical classification.
2. How did Nijinsky's choreography revolutionize ballet? Nijinsky broke away from traditional ballet's rigid structure, incorporating elements of modern dance, primal movement, and a focus on emotional expression, creating works that were both innovative and controversial.
3. What was the significance of Nijinsky's collaboration with Diaghilev? Diaghilev provided Nijinsky with the artistic freedom and resources to explore his revolutionary ideas, enabling him to produce groundbreaking choreography that significantly impacted the development of modern dance.
4. Why was Le Sacre du printemps so controversial at its premiere? Its radical departure from traditional ballet, combined with Stravinsky's dissonant music and shocking themes, shocked and alienated much of the audience.
5. What is Nijinsky's lasting legacy? His revolutionary choreography, athleticism, and expressive style continue to inspire dancers and choreographers globally, solidifying his place as one of the most influential figures in the history of dance.
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky Vaslaw Nijinsky, Waslaw Nijinsky, 1968 |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: On Frank Bidart Liam Rector, Tree Swenson, 2007 Essays that explore the art and craft of Frank Bidart's poetry, with an interview with the poet |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: The Queer Afterlife of Vaslav Nijinsky Kevin Kopelson, 1997 This is three books in one: an impressionistic account (based on the aestheticism of Walter Pater) of the dancer's homoerotic career, a deconstructive analysis of his gay male reception (drawn from the semiotics of Roland Barthes), and an exploration of the limitations of that analysis. |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: The Sacrifice Frank Bidart, 1983 |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: Nijinsky Romola Nijinsky, 2013-05-22 It was there that on the stage of a theatre for me undistinguishable-through a mass of unimportant plasterwork-from an esplanade of the forest, I saw for the first and last time, Nijinsky. We had already reached the third year of the war; he himself had just escaped from a concentration camp, and for me, the acute accents of the little orchestra which under Ansermet's baton was addressing the backcloth through the curtain wave mingled simultaneously on that strange Antarctic shore, with the noise of the! ocean flinging its prodigious fireworks against the breakwater of Beira Mar, and that of the ever present cannonade over there. l was like someone who is about to enter a ballroom from the outside, throws his cigar one way, and casts a final glance the other way towards the horizon where a dreadful moon is spreading its blaze behind a curtain of poisoned vapours. The storm had thrown up between Capocabana and the Sugarloaf the gaily-painted vessel of the Russian Ballets, and I was invited to take my ticket like those one-time emigrants going to applaud some exile from the Royal Opera on a chance stage of Coblenz or Spa. Nijinsky appeared. Romola Nijiski |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: Nijinsky Lucy Moore, 2013-05-02 'He achieves the miraculous,' the sculptor Auguste Rodin wrote of dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. 'He embodies all the beauty of classical frescoes and statues'. Like so many since, Rodin recognised that in Nijinsky classical ballet had one of the greatest and most original artists of the twentieth century, in any genre. Immersed in the world of dance from his childhood, he found his natural home in the Imperial Theatre and the Ballets Russes, he had a powerful sponsor in Sergei Diaghilev - until a dramatic and public failure ended his career and set him on a route to madness. As a dancer, he was acclaimed as godlike for his extraordinary grace and elevation, but the opening of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring saw furious brawls between admirers of his radically unballetic choreography and horrified traditionalists. Nijinsky's story has lost none of its power to shock, fascinate and move. Adored and reviled in his lifetime, his phenomenal talent was shadowed by schizophrenia and an intense but destructive relationship with his lover, Diaghilev. 'I am alive' he wrote in his diary, 'and so I suffer'. In the first biography for forty years, Lucy Moore examines a career defined by two forces - inspired performance and an equally headline-grabbing talent for controversy, which tells us much about both genius and madness. This is the full story of one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century, comparable to the work of Rosamund Bartlett or Sjeng Scheijen. |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: The Ballets Russes and Its World Lynn Garafola, Nancy Van Norman Baer, Nancy Baer, 1999-01-01 The dance, art, music, and cultural worlds of the Ballets Russes--a dance company which helped define the avant-garde in the early part of this century--are surveyed in this book, which begins with Serge Diaghilev's influence. 200+ illustrations. |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: The Chronology of American Literature Daniel S. Burt, 2004 If you are looking to brush up on your literary knowledge, check a favorite author's work, or see a year's bestsellers at a glance, The Chronology of American Literature is the perfect resource. At once an authoritative reference and an ideal browser's guide, this book outlines the indispensable information in America's rich literary past--from major publications to lesser-known gems--while also identifying larger trends along the literary timeline. Who wrote the first published book in America? When did Edgar Allan Poe achieve notoriety as a mystery writer? What was Hemingway's breakout title? With more than 8,000 works by 5,000 authors, The Chronology makes it easy to find answers to these questions and more. Authors and their works are grouped within each year by category: fiction and nonfiction; poems; drama; literary criticism; and publishing events. Short, concise entries describe an author's major works for a particular year while placing them within the larger context of that writer's career. The result is a fascinating glimpse into the evolution of some of America's most prominent writers. Perhaps most important, The Chronology offers an invaluable line through our literary past, tying literature to the American experience--war and peace, boom and bust, and reaction to social change. You'll find everything here from Benjamin Franklin's Experiments and Observations on Electricity, to Davy Crockett's first memoir; from Thoreau's Civil Disobedience to Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome; from meditations by James Weldon Johnson and James Agee to poetry by Elizabeth Bishop. Also included here are seminal works by authors such as Rachel Carson, Toni Morrison, John Updike, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Lavishly illustrated--and rounded out with handy bestseller lists throughout the twentieth century, lists of literary awards and prizes, and authors' birth and death dates--The Chronology of American Literature belongs on the shelf of every bibliophile and literary enthusiast. It is the essential link to our literary past and present. |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: Lit from Within Kevin Haworth, Dinty W. Moore, 2011-03-22 Lit from Within offers creative writers a window into the minds of some of America’s most celebrated contemporary authors. Witty, direct, and thought-provoking, these essays offer something to creative writers of all backgrounds and experience. With contributions from fiction writers, poets, and nonfiction writers, this is a collection of unusual breadth and quality. |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: Nijinsky's Crime Against Grace Millicent Hodson, 1996 The efforts of the three collaborators resulted in a spectacle that bore little resemblance to ballet. During the premiere at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees on May 29, 1913, Parisians were incited to riot by the strange tension of the dancing and stark contrasts of the music and decor. The premiere of Le Sacre du Printemps became a legend overnight, and the notoriety of this event began immediately to distort the significance of the work, especially Nijinsky's choreography. He declared to the London Daily Mail on July 12, 1913, I am accused, of a crime against grace. |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: The Women Who Wrote the War Nancy Caldwell Sorel, 1999 Like Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation, Sorel's moving account of the women war correspondents of this century at last brings to light the exploits of more than 100 of this country's unsung heroes. of photos. |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: The War that Ended Peace Margaret MacMillan, 2013-10-17 WINNER of the International Affairs Book of the Year at the Political Book Awards 2014Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2013 The First World War followed a period of sustained peace in Europe during which people talked with confidence of prosperity, progress and hope. But in 1914, Europe walked into a catastrophic conflict which killed millions of its men, bled its economies dry, shook empires and societies to pieces, and fatally undermined Europe's dominance of the world. It was a war which could have been avoided up to the last moment-so why did it happen? Beginning in the early nineteenth century, and ending with the assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand, award-winning historian Margaret MacMillan uncovers the huge political and technological changes, national decisions and -- just as important-the small moments of human muddle and weakness that led Europe from peace to disaster. This masterful exploration of how Europe chose its path towards war will change and enrich how we see this defining moment in our history. |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: Against Silence Frank Bidart, 2021-11-02 An urgent new collection from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and “one of the undisputed master poets of our time” (Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR) Words, voices reek of the worlds from which they emerge: different worlds, each with its all but palpable aroma, its parameters, limitations, promise. Words—there is a gap, nonetheless always and forever, between words and the world— slip, slide, are imprecise, BLIND, perish. • Set up a situation,— . . . then reveal an abyss. For more than fifty years, Frank Bidart has given voice to the inner self, to the depths of his own psyche and the unforgettable characters that populate his poems. In Against Silence, the Pulitzer Prize winner’s eleventh collection of poetry, Bidart writes of the cycles we cannot escape and the feelings we cannot forget. Our history is not a tabula rasa but a repeating, refining story of love and hate, of words spoken and old cruelties enacted. Moving among the dead and the living, the figures of his life and of his past, Bidart calls reality forth—with nothing settled and nothing forgotten, we must speak. |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: Religions of the Blood Sam Rasnake, 1998 |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: Half-light Frank Bidart, 2017-08-15 The collected works of one of contemporary poetry’s most original voices Gathered together, the poems of Frank Bidart perform one of the most remarkable transmutations of the body into language in contemporary literature. His pages represent the human voice in all its extreme registers, whether it’s that of the child-murderer Herbert White, the obsessive anorexic Ellen West, the tormented genius Vaslav Nijinsky, or the poet’s own. And in that embodiment is a transgressive empathy, one that recognizes our wild appetites, the monsters, the misfits, the misunderstood among us and inside us. Few writers have so willingly ventured to the dark places of the human psyche and allowed themselves to be stripped bare on the page with such candor and vulnerability. Over the past half century, Bidart has done nothing less than invent a poetics commensurate with the chaos and appetites of our experience. Half-light encompasses all of Bidart’s previous books, and also includes a new collection, Thirst, in which the poet austerely surveys his life, laying it plain for us before venturing into something new and unknown. Here Bidart finds himself a “Creature coterminous with thirst,” still longing, still searching in himself, one of the “queers of the universe.” Visionary and revelatory, intimate and unguarded, Bidart’s Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2017 are a radical confrontation with human nature, a conflict eternally renewed and reframed, restless line by restless line. |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: The Great Nijinsky Lynn Curlee, 2019-04-09 A tragic story of a cultural icon—dance prodigy, sex symbol, LGBTQ+ pioneer—this compelling work of narrative nonfiction chronicles a life of obsessive artistry and celebrity of Vaslav Nijinsky. With one grand leap off the stage at the 1909 premiere of the Ballets Russes's inaugural season, Nijinsky became an overnight sensation and the century's first superstar, in the days before moving pictures brought popular culture to the masses. Perhaps the greatest dancer of the twentieth century, Nijinsky captured audiences with his sheer animal magnetism and incredible skill. He was also half of the most famous (and openly gay) couple of the Edwardian era: his relationship with Serge Diaghilev, artistic director and architect of the Ballets Russes, pushed boundaries in a time when homosexuality and bisexuality were rarely discussed. Nijinsky's life was tumultuous--after marrying a female groupie he hardly knew, he was kicked out of the Ballets Russes and placed under house arrest during World War I. Unable to work as he once did, his mental health deteriorated, and he spent three decades in and out of institutions. Biographical narrative is interspersed with spotlights on the ballets the dancer popularized: classic masterworks such as Afternoon of a Faun, The Firebird, and of course, the shockingly original Rite of Spring, which caused the audience to riot at its premiere. Illustrated with elegant, intimate portraits as well as archival art and photographs. |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: The War on Music John Mauceri, 2022-04-26 A prominent conductor explores how aesthetic criteria masked the political goals of countries during the three great wars of the past century This book offers a major reassessment of classical music in the twentieth century. John Mauceri argues that the history of music during this span was shaped by three major wars of that century: World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. Probing why so few works have been added to the canon since 1930, Mauceri examines the trajectories of great composers who, following World War I, created voices that were unique and versatile, but superficially simpler. He contends that the fate of composers during World War II is inextricably linked to the political goals of their respective governments, resulting in the silencing of experimental music in Germany, Italy, and Russia; the exodus of composers to America; and the sudden return of experimental music—what he calls “the institutional avant-garde”—as the lingua franca of classical music in the West during the Cold War. |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: Wild Things Jack Halberstam, 2020-10-02 In Wild Things Jack Halberstam offers an alternative history of sexuality by tracing the ways in which wildness has been associated with queerness and queer bodies throughout the twentieth century. Halberstam theorizes the wild as an unbounded and unpredictable space that offers sources of opposition to modernity's orderly impulses. Wildness illuminates the normative taxonomies of sexuality against which radical queer practice and politics operate. Throughout, Halberstam engages with a wide variety of texts, practices, and cultural imaginaries—from zombies, falconry, and M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong! to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are and the career of Irish anticolonial revolutionary Roger Casement—to demonstrate how wildness provides the means to know and to be in ways that transgress Euro-American notions of the modern liberal subject. With Wild Things, Halberstam opens new possibilities for queer theory and for wild thinking more broadly. |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: Forces in Modern & Postmodern Poetry Albert Cook, 2008 Forces in Modern and Postmodern Poetry examines the works of classic authors in the modern and postmodern literary tradition, including Stéphane Mallarmé, Wallace Stevens, Samuel Beckett, Gertrude Stein, Charles Olson, Paul Celan, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, and John Ashbery, all from a comparative perspective. The concepts, modern and postmodern, are not used to provide definitive answers but to raise questions concerning the status of representation, issues of the self, and the use of imagery and musical invention. The wide range of the study is matched by the richly detailed analysis of specific poetic texts from an author noted for the scope and acuity of his attention to modern poetry in all its varied forms. |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: The Great War in Irish Poetry Fran Brearton, 2003 The Great War in Irish Poetry explores the impact of the First World War on the work of W. B. Yeats, Robert Graves, and Louis MacNeice in the period 1914-45, and on three contemporary Northern Irish poets, Derek Mahon, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Longley. Its concern is to place their work, andmemory of the Great War, in the context of Irish politics and culture in the twentieth century. The historical background to Irish involvement in the Great War is explained, as are the ways in which issues raised in 1912-20 still reverberate in the politics of remembrance in Northern Ireland,particularly through such events as the Home Rule cause, the loss of the Titanic, the Battle of the Somme, the Easter Rising. While the Great War is perceived as central to English culture, and its literature holds a privileged position in the English literary canon, the centrality of the Great War to Irish writing has seldom been recognised. This book shows first, that despite complications in Irish domestic politicswhich led to the repression of memory of the Great War, Irish poets have been drawn throughout the century to the events and images of 1914-18. This engagement is particularly true of those writing in the 'troubled' Northern Ireland of the last thirty years. The second main concern is the extent towhich recognition of the importance of the Great War in Irish writing has itself become a casualty of competing versions of the literary canon. |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: Music Like Dirt Frank Bidart, 2002 A single poem in sequence. Daring new work by a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nominee. |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century Eric L. Haralson, 2014-01-21 The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States. |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: The Rite of Spring at 100 John Reef, 2017-05-15 When Igor Stravinsky's ballet Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) premiered during the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, its avant-garde music and jarring choreography scandalized audiences. Today it is considered one of the most influential musical works of the twentieth century. In this volume, the ballet finally receives the full critical attention it deserves, as distinguished music and dance scholars discuss the meaning of the work and its far-reaching influence on world music, performance, and culture. Essays explore four key facets of the ballet: its choreography and movement; the cultural and historical contexts of its performance and reception in France; its structure and use of innovative rhythmic and tonal features; and the reception of the work in Russian music history and theory. |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: Vaslav Nijinsky Cyril William Beaumont, 1974 A concise study of the leading artist of the dance in the 20th century. This is a basic work for all students of the choreographic arts. Illus. |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: American Dad Tama Janowitz, 1988 |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: The Chosen Maiden Eva Stachniak, 2017-01-17 The lush, sweeping story of a remarkable dancer who charts her own course through the tumultuous years of early twentieth-century Europe. Beautifully blending fiction with fact, The Chosen Maiden plunges readers into an artistic world upended by modernity, immersing them in the experiences of the era's giants, from Anna Pavlova and Serge Diaghilev to Coco Chanel and Pablo Picasso. From their earliest days, the Nijinsky siblings appear destined for the stage. Bronia is a gifted young ballerina, but she is quickly eclipsed by her brother Vaslav. Deemed a prodigy, Vaslav Nijinsky will grow into the greatest, and most provocative, dancer of his time. To prove herself her brother's equal in the rigid world of ballet, Bronia will need to be more than extraordinary, defying society's expectations of what a female dancer can and should be. The real-life muse behind one of the most spectacular roles in dance, The Rite of Spring's Chosen Maiden, Bronia rises to the heights of modern ballet through grit, resilience and fervor. But when the First World War erupts and rebellion sparks in Russia, Bronia—caught between old and new, traditional and ground-breaking, safe and passionate—must begin her own search for what it means to be modern. |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: Nijinsky Richard Buckle, 2013-10-15 Vaslav Nijinsky was unique as a dancer, interpretive artist, and choreographic pioneer. His breathtaking performances with the Ballet Russe from 1909 to 1913 took Western Europe by storm. His avant-garde choreography for The Afternoon of the Faune and The Rite of Spring provoked riots when performed and are now regarded as the foundation of modern dance.Through his liaison with the great impresario Diaghilev, he worked with the artistic elite of the time. During the fabulous Diaghilev years he lived in an atmosphere of perpetual hysteria, glamor, and intrigue. Then, in 1913, he married a Hungarian aristocrat, Romola de Pulszky, and was abruptly dismissed from the Ballet Russe. Five years later, he was declared insane. The fabulous career as the greatest dancer who ever lived was over.Drawing on countless people who knew and worked with Nijinsky, Richard Buckle has written the definitive biography of the legendary dancer. |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: Politics and Literature at the Dawn of World War II James A. W. Heffernan, 2022-11-03 Mining the borderlands where history meets literature in Britain and Europe as well as America, this book shows how the imminence and outbreak of World War II ignited the imaginations of writers ranging from Ernest Hemingway, W.H. Auden, and James Joyce to Bertolt Brecht, Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green, and Irène Némirovsky. Taking its cue from Percy Shelley's dictum that great writers are to some extent created by the age in which they live, this book shows how much the politics and warfare of the years from 1939 to 1941 drove the literature of this period. Its novels, poems, and plays differ radically from histories of World War II because-besides being works of imagination-- they are largely products of a particular stage in the author's life as well as of a time at which no one knew how the war would end. This is the first comprehensive study of the impact of the outbreak of the Second World War on the literary work of American, English, and European writers during its first years. |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: The Pina Bausch Sourcebook Royd Climenhaga, 2013 Pina Bausch's work has had tremendous impact across the spectrum of late twentieth-century performance practice. It helped to redefine the possibilities of what both dance and theater can be. This edited collection presents a compendium of source material combined with contextual essays that serve as a base for the study of Pina Bausch's performance work. Edited by a renowned Bausch expert, Royd Climenhaga, it promises to help to open up Bausch's performative world for students, scholars and practitioners alike. |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: When Stravinsky Met Nijinsky Lauren Stringer, 2013 Composer Igor Stravinsky and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky, Russian comrades, worked together to bring a very different and new ballet to a Parisian audienceNThe Rite of SpringNand rioting filled the streets! Full color. |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: The Great War and the British Empire Michael J.K. Walsh, Andrekos Varnava, 2016-11-25 In 1914 almost one quarter of the earth's surface was British. When the empire and its allies went to war in 1914 against the Central Powers, history's first global conflict was inevitable. It is the social and cultural reactions to that war and within those distant, often overlooked, societies which is the focus of this volume. From Singapore to Australia, Cyprus to Ireland, India to Iraq and around the rest of the British imperial world, further complexities and interlocking themes are addressed, offering new perspectives on imperial and colonial history and theory, as well as art, music, photography, propaganda, education, pacifism, gender, class, race and diplomacy at the end of the pax Britannica. |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: Nijinsky's Feeling Mind Nicole Svobodny, 2023-07-03 Nijinsky's Feeling Mind: The Dancer Writes, The Writer Dances is the first in-depth literary study of Vaslav Nijinsky's life-writing. Through close textual analysis combined with intellectual biography and literary theory, Nicole Svobodny puts the spotlight on Nijinsky as reader. She elucidates Nijinsky's riffs on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche, equating these intertextual connections to marking a dance, whereby the dancer uses a reduction strategy situated between thinking and doing. By exploring the intersections of bodily movement with verbal language, this book addresses broader questions of how we sense and make sense of our worlds. Drawing on archival research, along with studies in psychology and philosophy, Svobodny emphasizes the modernist contexts from which the dancer-writer emerged at the end of World War I. Nijinsky began his life-writing—a book he titled Feeling—the day after the Paris Peace Conference opened, and the same day he performed his last dance. Nijinsky's Feeling Mind begins with the dancer on stage and concludes as he invites readers into his private room. Illuminating the structure, plot, medium, and mode of Feeling, this study calls on readers to grapple with a paradox: the more the dancer insists on his writing as a live performance, the more he points to the material object that entombs it. |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War Joy Porter, 2021-04-08 This book examines the extraordinary life of Frank “Toronto” Prewett and the history of trauma, literary expression, and the power of self-representation after WWI. Joy Porter sheds new light on how the First World War affected the Canadian poet, and how war-induced trauma or “shell-shock” caused him to pretend to be an indigenous North American. Porter investigates his influence of, and acceptance by, some of the most significant literary figures of the time, including Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Wilfred Owen and Robert Graves. In doing so, Porter skillfully connects a number of historiographies that usually exist in isolation from one another and rarely meet. By bringing together a history of the WWI era, early twentieth century history, Native American history, the history of literature, and the history of class Porter expertly crafts a valuable contribution to the field. |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: Spain and Argentina in the First World War Maximiliano Fuentes Codera, 2021-03-22 This is the first book that analyzes the transnational impact of the Great War simultaneously on two countries, Spain and Argentina, that remained neutral throughout the conflict. Both countries were very relevant in the conception of propaganda and policies of belligerent countries such as France, Germany and Great Britain and showed that the conflict had a global influence and affected deeply local political and cultural processes, even in areas geographically distant from the trenches. Within this framework, this book is focused on three aspects that are analyzed dynamically throughout the whole war from a transnational perspective: neutrality as a space of dispute between pro-Allies and pro-German sectors and its relation with local politics, the debate about what positions should be assumed in order to guarantee a world without war, and the polemics on the ideas of nations and supra-nations (Hispanism, Latinism, Pan-Americanism). The conclusions of the book highlight that the radicalization that exploded in 1917 in both countries was fundamental in shaping the political radicalization of the last months of the conflict and the postwar period. As happened in Europe, the Great War did not finish in 1918 and its traces continued in the 1920s and 1930s. |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: A Mad People’s History of Madness Dale Peterson, 1982-03-15 A man desperately tries to keep his pact with the Devil, a woman is imprisoned in an insane asylum by her husband because of religious differences, and, on the testimony of a mere stranger, a London citizen is sentenced to a private madhouse. This anthology of writings by mad and allegedly mad people is a comprehensive overview of the history of mental illness for the past five hundred years-from the viewpoint of the patients themselves.Dale Peterson has compiled twenty-seven selections dating from 1436 through 1976. He prefaces each excerpt with biographical information about the writer. Peterson's running commentary explains the national differences in mental health care and the historical changes that have take place in symptoms and treatment. He traces the development of the private madhouse system in England and the state-run asylum system in the United States. Included is the first comprehensive bibliography of writings by the mentally ill. |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: Voices of World War II Priscilla Roberts, 2012-08-22 Drawing together a wide variety of primary source documents from across the United States, Europe, and Asia, this book illuminates the events and experiences of World War II—the most devastating war in human history. World War II was the most destructive and disruptive war ever, a global conflict that in one way or another affected the lives of people across the planet. Voices of World War II: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life coalesces a wide variety of primary source documents drawn from across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Supplemented by interpretive material that enables readers to analyze them, assess their impact and significance, and place them in context to comparable situations today, the documents provide rare insights into World War II. Expert commentaries and additional information on these texts enable a greater understanding of the background to these documents, providing valuable training in learning to interpret, assess, and evaluate historical sources. Intended primarily for upper-level high school and undergraduate-level history students, general readers will also appreciate the variegated array of primary material from World War II, which depicts numerous aspects of the conflict, often in extremely personal terms. |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History Robert Aldrich, Garry Wotherspoon, 2020-10-07 Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to the Mid-Twentieth Century is a comprehensive and fascinating survey of the key figures in gay and lesbian history from classical times to the mid-twentieth century. Among those included are: * Classical heroes - Achilles; Aeneas; Ganymede * Literary giants - Sappho; Christopher Marlowe; Arthur Rimbaud; Oscar Wilde * Royalty and politicians - Edward II; King James I; Horace Walpole; Michel de Montaigne. Over the course of some 500 entries, expert contributors provide a complete and vivid picture of gay and lesbian life in the Western world throughout the ages. |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: 1913: The year of French modernism Effie Rentzou, André Benhaïm, 2020-08-25 This book takes its cue from the annus miabilis for French culture to outline French modernism and to situate it on the map of global modernism. Essays on specific works in various media present the first narrative of French modernism as a critical category and establish its position in the thriving field of modernist studies. |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: Mothers and Sons Terrence McNally, 2014-08-25 At turns funny and powerful, MOTHERS AND SONS portrays a woman who pays an unexpected visit to the New York apartment of her late son's partner, who is now married to another man and has a young son. Challenged to face how society has changed around her, generations collide as she revisits the past and begins to see the life her son might have led. |
| the war of vaslav nijinsky: The Random Review 1982 Gary Fisketjon, Jonathan Galassi, 1982 |
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This post delves into the "war" within Vaslav Nijinsky – the conflict between his artistic genius, his personal demons, and the societal pressures that ultimately contributed to his tragic downfall.
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Vaslav Nijinsky: dancing with madness. Nijinsky (1889–1950) An exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France, showing until Feb 18, 2001. Posthumously, it has been quite a. year for …
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claims that the “Great War was the psychological turning point…for modernism as a whole. The urge to create and the urge to destroy had changed places” (Eksteins). Furthermore, Nijinsky …
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Vaslav Nijinsky was one of the most famous dance artists of this century, and perhaps of all time. I shall examine the course of his paranoid schizophrenia as it seems to have devel oped in …
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stress was intensified by the outbreak of World War I, which found him in Budapest. As a Russian citizen in Hungary, and therefore an enemy alien and prisoner of war, Nijinsky was unable to …
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the first in-depth literary study of Vaslav Nijinsky's life-writing. Through close textual analysis combined with intellectual biography and literary theory, Nicole Svobodny puts the spotlight on …
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The diary of Vaslav Nijinsky was written in early 1919, before the great dancer was diagnosed as schizophrenic. wrote this diary in four school notebooks, the first three. account, in journal …
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The War of Vaslav Nijinsky and a new long poem The First Hour of the Night Against Silence Frank Bidart,2021-11-02 An urgent new collection from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the …
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The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky Joan R. Acocella,2001-06-01 In Dec. 1917, Vaslav Nijinsky, the most famous male dancer in the Western world, moved into a Swiss villa with his wife & daughter & …
The Great Nijinsky; by Lynn Curlee
Jan 26, 2024 · narrative nonfiction chronicles a life of obsessive artistry and celebrity of Vaslav Nijinsky. With one grand leap off the stage at the 1909 premiere of the Ballets Russes's …
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A footpath in the Square de la Tour Saint-Jacques in Paris is named for the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950). It was in the nearby Théâtre du Châtelet that the 'God of Dance' …
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In 1909 the Russian-born dancer Vaslav Nijinsky was nineteen years old when he made his explosive debut in Paris with the Ballets Russes. From the start his performances were so …
‘Nijinsky’ by John Neumeier: Present, past and even earlier time
Abstract. In search of general directorial and choreographic techniques, two of John Neumeier’s step-by-step works are analysed - “Nijnsky” and “The Lady of the Camellias”, in which the …
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Abstract. Three-dimensional theatrical space is often taken for granted as a precondition of dance. Already in 1912, the choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky provoked much discussion with a work …
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His "The War of Vaslav Nijinsky," a 30-page poem including prose passages from writings of Romola Nijinsky and other prose "based on" biographies, is an example of the monologue at …
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In 1917 Vaslav Nijinsky’s wife decided to take action to save their marriage. Romola Nijinsky was concerned about her husband’s fragile mental health and attributed his increasingly erratic …
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Nijinsky's life was tumultuous--after marrying a female groupie he hardly knew, he was kicked out of the Ballets Russes and placed under house arrest during World War I. Unable to work as he …
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Nijinsky's Russian notes cover his manuscript copy of the rehearsal score and resonate with the account of Jeux in his diary, offering insight into both Debussy's reluctance and his own …
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Nijinska's brother Vaslav, who joined the Ballets Russes with her, became not only Diaghilev's leading man but also his lover and, in time, the means of giving flesh to his creative ideas.
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Vaslav Nijinsky Vaslav Nijinsky Abb2 6 war ein Polnischer und Russischer Balletttänzer, geboren am 12. März 1889 in Kiew. Am 8. April 1950 in London verstorben. 7Nijinsky war der Sohn von …
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Man as Beast: Nijinsky's Faun Penny Farfan, University of Calgary In a 1 9 1 2 studio portrait, a handsome, smartly dressed young man with a cigarette dangling from his lips sits …
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Vaslav Nijinsky's first choreographic effort, in which he so compellingly danced the role of Faun, was acclaimed in Ballet Russes circles as an artis tic triumph. Wishing to capitalize on this …
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In 1917 Vaslav Nijinsky’s wife decided to take action to save their marriage. Romola Nijinsky was concerned about her husband’s fragile ... Moritz to wait out the war. The plan was for Nijinsky …
Dancing Genius: The Stardom of Vaslav Nijinsky - JSTOR
Russes star Vaslav Nijinsky, writes Hanna Järvinen in her book Dancing Genius: The Stardom of Vaslav Nijinsky . Gazing out at us from sepia-toned photographs of his iconic roles in …
On Nijinsky's 'L'Après-midi d'un Faune' (1912) - JSTOR
Dancing without Space -On Nijinsky's L'Après-midi d'un Faune (1912) HANNA JÀRVINEN Three-dimensional theatrical space is often taken for granted as a precondition of dance. Already in …
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Vaslav Nijinsky Peter F. Ostwald 1991 This book tells the story of his life, both the incredible ascent to fame and the leap into madness. The author has had access to Nijinsky's hospital …
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a Work by Vaslav Nijinsky. Thomas Roske It Translation Susanne Brunhart Wiggins. The Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950) achieved world fame with his virtuoso dancing and his …
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Vaslav Nijinsky, The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950) was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of Polish descent. He was one of the most gifted male dancers in …
‘Nijinsky’ by John Neumeier: Present, past and even earlier time
The story of Vaslav Nijinsky4 (Grigoriev 1993; Krasovskaja 1972; Gaevski 1981; Balet. Jenciklopedija 1981) is a thrill for Neumeier, which is why he would return to Nijinsky’s tragic …
Un caso para la clínica de las psicosis: Vaslav Nijinsky.
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the masterful Russian dancer, Vaslav Nijinsky. Barbier became inspired by the “poetic” movements of the celebrated Russian dancer and went on to illustrate two books: "Designs on …
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romance with Vaslav Nijinsky, who was credited as the greatest male dancer of the early 20th century, began in 1909. Nijinsky had been the former lover of Prince Lvov, and the ... midst of …
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mit der eigenen Homosexualität. In „The War of Vaslav Nijinsky“ (Der Krieg Vaslav Nijinskys) aus The Sacrifice, 1983 (Das Opfer), beschäftigt sich der schizophrene russische Balletttänzer …
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effects of new technologies of war.2 The First World War was also the principal reason why the controversial choreographer of the Ballets Russes 1912-1913 seasons, Vaslav Nijinsky, would …
Un caso para la clínica de las psicosis: Vaslav Nijinsky.
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brother Vaslav Nijinsky and encouraged subsequently by impresario Sergei Diaghilev, she choregraphed more than eighty ballets, at least one ... Ballets Russes during the pre-war …
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Figure 6: Nijinsky as The Favorite Slave in L’Pavillon d’Armide 137 Figure 7: Vaslav Nijinsky 139 Figure 8: Nijinsky as Petruschka 148 Figure 9: Nijinsky and sister Bronislava Nijinska as the …
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