MONTE CARLO — The fourth biennial Nijinsky Awards, considered the Oscars of the dance world, were presented Thursday on a stage where, nearly a century ago, legendary dancer and choreographer Vaslav ...

The set-up: Vaslav Nijinsky was a complicated character. Renowned as one of the greatest ballet dancers of all time, he changed the face of the art through his distinctively angular, sexually-charged ...

Death of a Faun, with actor-dancer Nicholas Johnson as the legendary dancer, recently played Off-Off-Broadway, at St. Clements Theatre. Formerly a dancer with The Royal Ballet and English National ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Not many new books use critical blurbs from 1950 to promote their contents, but “Nijinsky: God of Dance” isn’t a typical book. It’s more like a gallery of ...

Powerful, brilliant and gay, Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev famously started the Ballets Russes in Paris in 1909, smartly bringing together the best artists, composers, choreographers, dancers ...

NEW YORK, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- It has been more than 80 years since Vaslav Nijinsky danced in public, but a major exhibition of memorabilia illustrating the career of the greatest male ballet dancer of ...

On closing night in Melbourne's State Theatre, there is a euphoric energy as members of Orchestra Victoria warm up in the orchestra pit. The audience is here to witness the Australian Ballet's ...

The Australian Ballet is thrilled to unveil its premiere production of John Neumeier's acclaimed Nijinsky.Rarely seen outside Europe and performed by The Australian Ballet for the first time, Nijinsky ...

Kally Lloyd-Jones’s new work is an impeccably researched and beautifully performed homage to the grace – and downfall – of Vaslav Nijinsky The story of Vaslav Nijinsky – the mad, broken genius of ...

John Neumeier’s Nijinsky must be one of the best-dressed ballets ever seen at City Center, especially given the fact that it’s about a massive mental breakdown. Then again, it’s Nijinsky’s breakdown, ...