An exhibition at the Morgan, drawn from its collection of musical manuscripts, sheds light on one of the most collaborative periods in dance. By Alice Courtright Lynn Garafola’s “La Nijinska” tells ...
The 1979 production of L'Après-midi d'un faune by Vaslav Nijinsky. Staged by Rudolf Nureyev and Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet and set to Claude Debussy's symphonic poem Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune.
To the late great Dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, the Afternoon of a Faun was a lazy, sensual episode in the life of a mythological goat-man; he danced it (to Debussy’s famed music) in horns, tail and dappled ...
"I understand what an artist is, because I am an artist myself," Vaslav Nijinsky wrote in 1919, when he was 30 and living in Switzerland. Within a year, the legendary dancer and choreographer entered ...