In which year did the great Russian ballet dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky die?
"Vaslav Nijinsky Vaslav Nijinsky (also Vatslav; ; ; ; 12 March 1889/18908 April 1950) was a ballet dancer and choreographer cited as the greatest male dancer of the early 20th century. Born in Kiev to Polish parents, Nijinsky grew up in Imperial Russia but considered himself to be Polish. He was celebrated for his virtuosity and for the depth and intensity of his characterizations. He could dance ""en pointe"", a rare skill among male dancers at the time and was admired for his seemingly gravity-defying leaps. Nijinsky was introduced to dance by his parents, who were senior dancers with the"
"1946 Irina had married Gibbs S. Raetz; they had two children, Natalie and George. In 1991 at age 77, Irina Nijinska died in a hospital room in Inglewood after suffering a stroke. Irina Nijinska Irina Nijinska (20 November 1913 - 2 July 1991) was a Russian-Polish ballet dancer. After her own career was cut short, she spent much of her life promoting the work of her mother, Bronislava Nijinska, the dancer and choreographer. Irina Nijinska was born in St Petersburg, the daughter of Nijinska and dancer Alexander Kotchetovsky; her uncle was the world famous dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. After her brother"
"Irina Nijinska Irina Nijinska (20 November 1913 - 2 July 1991) was a Russian-Polish ballet dancer. After her own career was cut short, she spent much of her life promoting the work of her mother, Bronislava Nijinska, the dancer and choreographer. Irina Nijinska was born in St Petersburg, the daughter of Nijinska and dancer Alexander Kotchetovsky; her uncle was the world famous dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. After her brother Leo was born in Kiev in 1919, her parents separated. Her mother took her two children west in 1921, eventually settling in France. Trained as a dancer in Paris, Irina made her"
"Pierre Vladimiroff Pierre Vladimiroff, or Pyotr Nikolayevich Vladimirov (; born February 13, 1893 in Gatchina, Saint Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire – died November 25, 1970 in New York City, United States), was a Russian dancer and teacher. Vladimirov graduated from the Imperial Ballet School in 1911 and remained a member of the Imperial Ballet company until 1918. In 1915, he received the title of the first dancer. In 1920, he and his later wife Felia Doubrovska emigrated to the West, where they joined the Ballets Russes; all roles of Vaslav Nijinsky went to Pierre Vladimiroff (Nijinsky left the Diaghilev company"
"Bronislava Nijinska Bronislava Nijinska (; , ""Bronislava Fominichna Nizhinskaya"", ); ( – February 21, 1972) was a Polish ballet dancer, and an innovative choreographer. She came of age in a family of professional dancers. Her career began in Saint Petersburg, soon ventured with Ballets Russes to Paris, but later but met difficulties in war-time 'Petrograd' and turbulent Kiev. In France again public acclaim for her works quickly rose, cresting in the 1920s. She enjoyed continuing successes then in Europe and the Americas. Nijinska played a pioneering role in the broad movement that diverged from 19th-century classical ballet. Her introduction of"
"1972, in Pacific Palisades, California, after suffering a heart attack. She was 81. She was survived by her daughter, son-in-law, and two grandchildren. Bronislava Nijinska Bronislava Nijinska (; , ""Bronislava Fominichna Nizhinskaya"", ); ( – February 21, 1972) was a Polish ballet dancer, and an innovative choreographer. She came of age in a family of professional dancers. Her career began in Saint Petersburg, soon ventured with Ballets Russes to Paris, but later but met difficulties in war-time 'Petrograd' and turbulent Kiev. In France again public acclaim for her works quickly rose, cresting in the 1920s. She enjoyed continuing successes then"
"company would suffer if people saw their performance only in the short jerky films of the period. On 11 June 2011, Poland’s first sculpture of the Polish/Russian dancers, Vaslav Nijinsky and his sister Bronislava Nijinska, was unveiled in the Teatr Wielki’s foyer. It portrays them in their roles as the Faun and the Nymph from the ballet ""L’après-midi d’un faune."" Commissioned by the Polish National Ballet, the sculpture was made in bronze by the well-known Ukrainian sculptor Giennadij Jerszow. Nijinsky was also portrayed by Auguste Rodin. It was cast posthumously in 1912, Vaslav Nijinsky Vaslav Nijinsky (also Vatslav; ; ;"
"as he tried out new steps and innovative poses. Her 1912 marriage, however, shook the artistic ""bond between the brother and sister"". Bronia nonetheless continued her sibling loyalty. She showed her support for Vaslav's career, especially during his 1914 production of ""Season Nijinsky"" in London. In 1913 Vaslav married Romola de Pulszky suddenly while in Argentina. It was a confounding surprise to his mother and sister. In 1917 his ballet career ended in confusion and controversy. Thereafter he lived with Romola and their children in Switzerland for many years. He died in Sussex, UK, in 1950. Vaslav was survived by"
"the urging of Otto Kahn. Nijinsky became increasingly mentally unstable with the stresses of having to manage tours himself and deprived of opportunities to dance. After a tour of South America in 1917, and due to travel difficulties imposed by the war, the family settled in St. Moritz, Switzerland. His mental condition deteriorated; he was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1919 and committed to an asylum for the first time. For the next 30 years, he was in and out of institutions, never dancing again in public. Vaslav Nijinsky was born in 1889 or 1890 in Kiev, Russian Empire (now Ukraine),"
"Pagan Russia in Two Parts""; the scenario depicts various primitive rituals celebrating the advent of spring, after which a young girl is chosen as a sacrificial victim and dances herself to death. After a mixed critical reception for its original run and a short London tour, the ballet was not performed again until the 1920s, when a version choreographed by Léonide Massine replaced Nijinsky's original. Massine's was the forerunner of many innovative productions directed by the world's leading ballet-masters, gaining the work worldwide acceptance. In the 1980s, Nijinsky's original choreography, long believed lost, was reconstructed by the Joffrey Ballet in"
"of the celebrated Vaslav Nijinsky, she was a major artist in her own right and a key figure in the development of twentieth-century ballet. ... As one of twentieth-century's ballet's great innovators, she transformed the art ... During a 1913 Ballets Russes tour in South American, Nijinsky married Romola de Pulszky, which created controversy. Nijinsky was alone, as Nijinska's pregnancy had kept her in Europe. She explains in her memoirs that Vaslav was very reserved and, other than herself, had few confidants or close colleagues in the dance world. When her brother married in 1913, Diaghilev terminated his position at"
"1914, their last meeting. Once widely-celebrated as the ""god of dance"" he had not performed since 1917. Despite such sadness, the family was reunited. Broni found income by working at a cabaret in Vienna. At this point Diaghilev sent her an invitation; he included train fare. Her two children she entrusted to her mother's care. Nijinska then departed for Paris to rejoin Ballets Russes. The company staged ballets for twenty years, starting with its 1909 opening of ""La Saison Russe"" in Paris, and ending in 1929 when its founder Sergei Diaghilev died. He had directed the company's operations: both the"
"Igor Belsky Igor Dmitrievich Belsky (; 28 March 1925, Saint Petersburg, Russia – 3 July 1999, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer. After 20 years of solo work (1942–62) he became a chief choreographer of Maly Theatre (1962–73), artistic director of Kirov Ballet (1973–77), artistic director of Cairo Ballet (1977–78), chief ballet master at the Leningrad Music Hall (1979–92), and artistic director of the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet. Belsky got his passion to ballet from his parents, famous vaudeville dancers. While still studying at the Vaganova Academy, in 1942, he was allowed to perform with the"
"gesture of her right arm across her brow, and I could see Nijinsky exactly. There was something in her movement and her face that expressed all there is to say about dancing in that one instant, and I can never forget it. Kyra Nijinsky Kyra Vaslavovna Nijinsky (19 June 1913 – 1 September 1998), was a ballet dancer of Polish and Hungarian ancestry, with a Russian dance and cultural heritage. She was the daughter of Vaslav Nijinsky and the niece of Bronislava Nijinska. In the 1930s she appeared in ballets mounted by Ida Rubinstein, Max Reinhardt, Marie Rambert, Frederick Ashton,"
"dance a principal role in what proved to be the choreographer's last ballet, ""La Romance d'un Bouton de rose et d'un Papillon."" The work was never performed due to the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War. On Sunday, 9 January 1905, Nijinsky was caught in the Bloody Sunday massacre in St Petersburg, where a group of petitioners led by Father Grapon attempted to present their petition to the Czar. Soldiers fired upon the crowd, leading to an estimated 1000 casualties. Nijinsky was caught in the crowd on Nevsky Prospect and propelled toward the Winter Palace. Imperial cavalry troops charged the crowd,"
"Hall (1979–92) and then as the artistic director of the Vaganova Ballet Academy. In parallel, Belsky had a long career as a teacher, which started with character dance in 1946 at the Vaganova School and continued from 1966 at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. He died of a stroke, aged 74. He was survived by his wife, Lyudmila Alekseyeva, a solo dancer from the Kirov Ballet, and a son Nikita. Igor Belsky Igor Dmitrievich Belsky (; 28 March 1925, Saint Petersburg, Russia – 3 July 1999, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer. After 20 years of solo work"
"and internationally until Diaghilev's death in 1929. The set designers included Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Joan Miró, and Salvador Dalí. Its choreographers included Bronislava Nijinska (1891-1972), the younger sister of the star dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, and a young George Balanchine (1904-1983). In 1924, Balanchine, then a dancer, fled a Soviet dance company on tour in the Weimar Republic and came to Paris, where Diaghilev hired him as a choreographer. The most famous production was the 1924 ballet ""Le Train Bleu"" with a story by Cocteau, music by Darius Milhaud, costumes by Coco Chanel and a curtain painted by"
"at the 'Ecole de Mouvement' she had founded in Kiev following the Russian revolution. He, too, had left Russia. They met again as exiles in Monte Carlo. He became associated with Ballets Russes as a dancer. They were married in 1924. During their four decades together, he often worked in production and management, acting as her business partner in staging her various ballet productions and other projects. In America he also translated for her, especially when she taught at the ballet studio. He died in Los Angeles, California, in 1968, four years before her. Bronislava Nijinska died on February 21,"
"Rudolf Nureyev Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev ( , ; 17 March 1938 – 6 January 1993) was a Soviet ballet and contemporary dancer and choreographer. He was director of the Paris Opera Ballet from 1983 to 1989 and its chief choreographer until October 1992. Named Lord of the Dance, Nureyev is widely regarded as the greatest male ballet dancer of his generation. In addition to his technical prowess, Rudolf Nureyev was an accomplished choreographer. He produced his own interpretations of numerous classical works, including ""Swan Lake"", ""Giselle"", and ""La Bayadère"". Nureyev had his early career with the Mariinsky Ballet in St."
"the United States and Canada for 24 weeks with a revival of the Broadway musical ""The King and I"". A feature film about his life is to be released in 2019 under the title ""The White Crow."" Rudolf Nureyev Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev ( , ; 17 March 1938 – 6 January 1993) was a Soviet ballet and contemporary dancer and choreographer. He was director of the Paris Opera Ballet from 1983 to 1989 and its chief choreographer until October 1992. Named Lord of the Dance, Nureyev is widely regarded as the greatest male ballet dancer of his generation. In addition"
"Theatre and Performance. A full catalogue and details of access arrangements are available here. Igor Stravinsky Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (; ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century. Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Serge Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: ""The Firebird"" (1910), ""Petrushka"" (1911), and ""The Rite of Spring"" (1913). The last of these transformed the way in which subsequent"
"to Russia. Diaghilev started negotiations in October 1914 for Nijinsky to work again for the company, but could not obtain release of the dancer until 1916. The complex negotiations included a prisoner exchange with the United States, and agreement that Nijinsky would dance and choreograph for the Ballets Russes' tour. King Alfonso XIII of Spain, Queen Alexandra of Denmark, Dowager Russian Empress Marie Feodorovna, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and Pope Benedict XV all interceded on his behalf. Nijinsky arrived in New York on 4 April 1916. The tour had already started in January with a number of problems:"
"Nijinska would have refused to become involved with politics or intrigue."" She was replaced by Léon Wójcikowski. With Ballets Russes since 1916 Leon Woizikovsky (1899-1975) had enjoyed prominent roles in Nijinska's ""Les Noces"", ""Les Biches"", and ""Le Train Bleu"" (as the Golfer). In 1939 he led the Ballet Polonais to the World's Fair in New York. ""The company returned to Warsaw one day before the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, and was never heard from again."" Woizikovsky himself found work in the Americas during the war. Much later he helped in reconstructing Nijinska's choreography for Diaghilev's ""Ballets"
"the 1910s, the dance scene in Kiev saw a rapid development in classical ballet and contemporary dance training and performance. Mikhail Mordkin, a former soloist with the Bolshoi Ballet, travelled to Kiev with a troupe and gave performances with Art Nouveau approaches, containing Spanish and Oriental themes. He was hired by the experimental Kiev Young Theatre between 1916 and 1919, and gained a reputation as an influential teacher of movement and dance. Bronislava Nijinska, sister of Vaslav Nijinsky and a former soloist with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris, fled to Kiev in 1916 to escape World War I upheaval in"
"the thing lies with Nijinsky – the fabulous Nijinsky, the peerless dancer, who as the faun does no dancing... His movements are at once abrupt and stealthy. He leaps once. This one leap is a surprise and an illumination. It is a full evocation of a being half-boy, half-brute, consummate and uncanny."" In 1931, shortly after the death of Diaghilev, when some of his dancers settled in London, the Rambert Ballet took ""L'Après-midi d'un faune"" into its repertoire; Leon Woizikovsky, who had danced the faune in the last years of the Diaghilev company and learnt from Nijinsky, reproduced the ballet"
"and ""Nocturne"" (1919) and ""Marche Funèbre"" (1920), music by Chopin. These solo dances may be ""the first abstract ballets"" of the 20th century. Accordingly, she first received broad recognition as a choreographer. Then Nijinska, invited by the Ministry of Arts, mounted a full theatrical production of the Tchaikovsky ballet ""Swan Lake"", in which she adapted the classic Petipa and Ivanov choreography of 1895. The performance was held at Kiev's State Opera Theater. It had been reported in the literature that Nijinska and family left Kiev in 1921 in order to visit her brother Vaslav Nijinsky in Vienna, after learning of"
"the legendary Vaslav Nijinsky, considered the most popular and talented dancer in the company's history. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, in later years, younger dancers were taken from those trained in Paris by former Imperial dancers, within the large community of Russian exiles. Recruits were even accepted from America and included a young Ruth Page who joined the troupe in Monte Carlo during 1925. The company featured and premiered now-famous (and sometimes notorious) works by the great choreographers Marius Petipa and Michel Fokine, as well as new works by Vaslav Nijinsky, Bronislava Nijinska, Léonide Massine, and the young George"
"deteriorated under the stress of Nijinsky's becoming principal choreographer and his pivotal role in the company's financial success. Diaghilev could not face Nijinsky to tell him personally that he would no longer be choreographing the ballet ""Joseph"", but instead asked his sister Bronia Nijinska to deliver the bad news. The company was to embark on a tour of South America in August 1913. Nijinska, who had always worked closely with her brother and supported him, could not accompany the tour because she had married in July 1912 and become pregnant. In October 1912 their father had died while on tour"
"Mikhail Baryshnikov Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov (; ; born January 27, 1948), nicknamed ""Misha"" (Russian diminutive of the name ""Mikhail""), is a Latvian-born Russian and American dancer, choreographer, and actor. He is often cited alongside Vaslav Nijinsky, Rudolf Nureyev and Vladimir Vasiliev as one of the greatest male ballet dancers in history. After a promising start in the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad, Baryshnikov defected to Canada in 1974 for more opportunities in western dance. After freelancing with many companies, he joined the New York City Ballet as a principal dancer to learn George Balanchine's style of movement. He then danced with"
"In 1952 Romola published her second biography of Nijinsky, called ""The Last Years of Nijinsky"". Romola Nijinsky died in Paris on 9 September 1978. In 1995, an unexpurgated English edition was published of ""The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky"", edited by Joan Acocella, a professional writer about dance, and in a new translation by Kyril FitzLyon. The ""New York Times"" review said that this edition showed that his original diary was severely ""bowdlerized"" by his wife in the versions she published in 1936 and later. His diary reflected the decline of his household into chaos before he was committed to an"
"of the Maryinsky and a young director who believed in his methods. Inglesby had the only person in the world outside Soviet Russia who could produce the classical ballets in their original Petipa/Ivanov forms, which is what she wanted her company to do. Between 1942 and 1948 he re-created full length productions of the classics ""Giselle"", ""Coppelia"", ""Sleeping Princess"" and ""Swan Lake"", as well as some shorter ballets and some short extracts from the classics.<br> He worked with International Ballet until his health started to fail, and he died in Nice on 23 June 1951 aged 74. Nicholas Sergeyev Nicholas"
"To round out the program, they needed another ballet. Without sufficient time to compose a new work, they decided on a suite of popular dances, to be called ""Le Festin"". Anna Pavlova, Karsavina and Nijinsky were chosen as principal dancers. Fokine insisted that Ida Rubenstein would appear as Cleopatra, and Nijinsky insisted that his sister should have a part. Fokine noted Nijinsky's great ability at learning a dance and precisely what a choreographer wanted. Diaghilev departed for Paris in early 1909 to make arrangements, which were immediately complicated on the day of his return, 22 February 1909, by the death"
"of the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, and then returned to France, where he died at age 77. Nicolas Zverev Nicolas Zverev (or Zvereff ; ; 1888, Moscow - 24 July 1965 Saint-Raphaël) was a Russian-French dancer and ballet master. He studied at the Moscow ballet class at the theatre school of the Moscow Imperial troupe. In 1912 he was invited by Sergei Diaghilev to his troupe Ballets russes. Zverev participated in the Ballets russes from 1912 or 1913 to 1926. Among his roles were Slave (""Scheherazade"", Michel Fokine’s ballet), Cossack Chief (La Boutique fantasque, 1919), one of the men"