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Aleksandr Domogarov

He started to participate in many plays including Macbeth, but his greatest stage success came with the role of Vaslav Nijinsky in Nijinsky, Clown of God.

Carla Fracci

Her career highlights include Nijinsky, Giselle (American Ballet Theatre), Complete Bell Telephone Hour Performances: Erik Bruhn 1961-1967.

Georgy Shishkin

Pictures, dedicated to the Theatre: " Homage to Chaliapin ", 1993; triptych " Homage to Ballets Russians of Diaghilev ", 1997; " Homage to Nijinsky ", 2000–2001; " Serge Lifar in Ikare ", 2005;

Gwladys Robinson, Marchioness of Ripon

She was a close friend of Oscar Wilde, who dedicated his play A Woman of No Importance to her; other celebrated friends included Nellie Melba, whose success in London was largely due to Lady Ripon's support, Nijinsky and Diaghilev.

Henning Rübsam

While a student at the Juilliard School, he took Classical Spanish Dance, studied Indian dance with Indrani Rahman, took a summer intensive at the School of American Ballet, performed as the Faun in the Nijinsky/Debussy ballet, starred in a dance film at the Sundance Institute, where he worked with Diane Coburn-Bruning, Michael Kidd and Stanley Donen, and toured internationally with the Limón Dance Company.

Moshe Efrati

Nijinsky is said to have used this method to cue his dancers for Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, as the rhythms were too complex for Nijinsky’s dancers to follow.

Ronald Pickup

He played Lt. Harford in Zulu Dawn (also 1979), portrayed Igor Stravinsky in Nijinsky (1980), and Prince John in Ivanhoe (1982), Hello Einstein (1985; for television).

The Art of Nijinsky

The Art of Nijinsky is a 1913 book written by Geoffrey Whitworth which analyzes the art of Vaslav Nijinsky.

The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky

The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky is a 2001 Australian film directed by Paul Cox about Vaslav Nijinsky.


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