Vaslav

Strange, because this Olympian of the imagination commissioned music by Stravinsky and Satie, costumes, designs, props and posters by Chanel, Bakst, Cocteau, Braque and Matisse, and employed dancers such as Vaslav Nijinsky and Lydia Lopokhova (who married Bloomsbury's John Maynard Keynes.)

Beauty of the Ballets Russes Paul Levy 2010

One of the highlights will be an extraordinary portrait of the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky – his face drained, almost drugged – in character as the Rose from the Ballets Russes 'Le Spectre de la Rose during the company's 1914 visit to London, when it was the most famous and outrageous in the ballet world.

National Portrait Gallery to put EO Hoppé back in the frame Maev Kennedy 2010

• 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

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

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

The dancer depicted was Vaslav Nijinsky, from whose photos and drawings Maliphant had taken inspiration.

Russell Maliphant Company Judith Mackrell 2010

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

Vaslav strained toward the panting shark and moaned, “Sergei, Sergei, not again, Sergei, I'm sorry.”

The Old Man and the Shark Tara King 2010

He wanted to crush Vaslav, to tear his old soft flesh from his bones and to absorb the salt and iron of his blood, but instead he thought of Vaslav's wife, Betty, and how she kept her hair like Cleopatra.

The Old Man and the Shark Tara King 2010

Vaslav tried to relax and let it pull his limp body through the warm water, feeling the lateral muscles contracting and stretching against him.

The Old Man and the Shark Tara King 2010