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Nijinsky - A Life (Paperback, Main)
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Nijinsky - A Life (Paperback, Main)
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'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.
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