Celebrity, visionary, muse: Vaslav Nijinsky changed dance forever with his explosive leap and his shockingly sensual choreography, before a dark descent into madness ended his career. John Neumeier, ...

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, ...

Powerful, brilliant and gay, Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev famously started the Ballets Russes in Paris in 1909, smartly bringing together the best artists, composers, choreographers, dancers ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Not many new books use critical blurbs from 1950 to promote their contents, but “Nijinsky: God of Dance” isn’t a typical book. It’s more like a gallery of ...

JOHN NEUMEIER can't shake his fascination with Vaslav Nijinsky. Nijinsky was the great early 20th-century ballet dancer who for a brief time between 1909 and 1915 captured the hearts of theatergoers ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Vaslav Nijinsky stands as one of the most celebrated, yet also controversial great ...

ISMENE BROWN: What object or image would you say most captures for you the spirit of Diaghilev? RUSSELL MALIPHANT: I’ve worked with a lot of photographs of Nijinsky, but also with some of his drawings ...

Death of a Faun, with actor-dancer Nicholas Johnson as the legendary dancer, recently played Off-Off-Broadway, at St. Clements Theatre. Formerly a dancer with The Royal Ballet and English National ...