Marchesa Luisa Casati bankrupted herself on gold-painted servants, diamond-leashed cheetahs and electric dresses—and influenced every major fashion designer of the 20th century. The National Gallery ...

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A few years back, on a cold and wet night in Grahamstown during the National Arts Festival, I slipped into a sports club venue to see a solo show titled "Vaslav". It was obviously a Nijinsky tribute I ...

1 BroadwayWorld Unveils New Redesigned Website & On Demand TV Apps Vaslav Nijinsky stands as one of the most celebrated, yet also controversial great male dancers of the 20th century. Bringing the ...

"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 ...

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, ...