Vaslav Nijinsky

• Mikhail Baryshnikov and Vaslav Nijinsky were not "given to the world" by the Bolshoi theatre company as we stated in an article examining the upheaval at the theatre over the departure of Gennady Yanin, a deputy director of the ballet company.

Corrections and clarifications 2011

It opens with Fokine's Le Spectre de la Rose, the 1911 ballet with which Vaslav Nijinsky legendarily reinvented the image of the male dancer, leaping on stage in a pink-petalled costume – athletically virile and exquisitely perfumed.

Men in Motion – review 2012

As the opening performance of 'Le Pavillon D'Armide' concluded, Vaslav Nijinsky, dressed in white with a feathered turban, seemed to pause mid-air in his final leap.

Photo-Op: Modernism à la Russe 2011

Russell Maliphant's 2009 work AfterLight was created in response to the drawings of Vaslav Nijinsky, to the dynamic energy and tension that the great dancer evoked through pencil and paper as well as through his body on stage.

This week's new theatre & dance 2012

The vocabulary of dance was transformed, as choreographers Mikhail Fokine, Vaslav Nijinsky and his sister Bronislava, Leonide Massine, and George Balanchine wrought changes and sometimes about-faces on classical symmetry and bravura.

The Passions of an Impresario Joel Lobenthal 2010

On a Louis XIV desk was a well-worn paperback entitled The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky, which sounded pretty innocent to Arkady.

Three Stations : An Arkady Renko Novel Martin Cruz Smith 2010

When Romola Nijinsky first introduced American cultural figure Lincoln Kirstein to choreographer George Balanchine following a 1933 Les Ballets performance in London, the widow of famed ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky may have known exactly how significant the meeting of these two artistic forces were.

Linda Constant: The Foundation of Movement: Cultural Diplomacy 2010

One of the most visually captivating Australian films of the decade was Paul Cox's unconventional documentary on the life of famous Russian ballet master Vaslav Nijinsky.

A List For Australia Day Glenn Dunks 2010

Rather, he starts with one of the most notorious moments in Stravinsky's career -- the 1913 debut of The Rite of Spring at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees, when the audience nearly rioted in outrage at the dissonance of Stravinsky's music and the innovations of a ballet set to the music by Vaslav Nijinsky.

Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky 2010

But it was the season's star performers who really captivated Paris: Vaslav Nijinsky with his phenomenal virtuosity, Anna Pavlova with her ethereal delicacy, Tamara Karsavina with her refined, sensuous beauty.

Sergei Diaghilev: first lord of the dance 2010