The most infamous succès de scandale in the history of the ballet is, of course, the Ballets Russes’ 1913 production of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. The production, particularly Stravinsky’s ...

As read by Derek Jacobi, the famed Russian dancer-choreographer's musings -- penned at the end of his career and beginning of a 30-year withdrawal into mental illness -- comprise a numbing, repetitive ...

Only the cruelest of Gods would have bothered to create Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950), the Russian dancer who burst to fame with the groundbreaking Russian dance company Ballet Russes under the ...

One of this century's finest male dancers, Nijinsky might have become known as the greatest ballet choreographer of the modern era had his career not ended so early. Nijinsky danced professionally for ...

“A lot of people lost their sanity because of art,” says Mikhail Baryshnikov, sounding decidedly sane during a phone interview. “Art is divine madness. You have to be totally committed. A lot of ...

An account of four years of training at Harvard Medical School, with time for a wedding. Chicago Bulls add Australian forward Lachlan Olbrich in the 2nd round of the NBA draft Who is Noa Essengue? 6 ...

A few tantalising seconds of jerky black-and-white footage are all that survive as cinematic evidence of Vaslav Nijinsky’s balletic genius. But in her enthralling biography, Nijinsky, Lucy Moore helps ...

For nearly two months in 1919—after his final performance and before he entered an insane asylum—the legendary Polish-Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky filled a diary with feverish reveries on life, art, ...

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 ...