NOUN
- Russian dancer considered by many to be the greatest dancer of the 20th century (1890-1950)
How To Use Nijinsky In A Sentence
- What we all need is to continue Romola Nijinsky's instinctive inclination towards connecting the similar yet disjoined, and then utilize these developments towards real contributions for the evolution of a culture's body of knowledge in the broadest scope possible. Linda Constant: The Foundation of Movement: Cultural Diplomacy
- After that, the Russian was as sure as ever and as stylish and cocky as Vaclav Nijinsky, the revolutionary ballet dancer his free skate is homage to. USATODAY.com - Liashenko, Plushenko recover to win Cup of Russia
- He gave similar rings to Nijinsky and Massine, and in their case the message was clear: they were to remain faithful to him and to ballet. Sergei Diaghilev: first lord of the dance
- When Proietto returns to dance with them, his wary, hieratic stance is an instant evocation of Nijinsky as the faun himself. Russell Maliphant Company
- So they continued until Nijinsky had gone two lengths clear inside the distance.
- The dancers followed Nijinsky's count, too… and as Russian numbers above ten are polysyllabic - eighteen, for example, vosemnadsat - in the fast tempo movements neither he nor they could keep up.
- Bursting with color and energy, the almost-beyond-lavish pages of 'Ballets Russes' Assouline, 236 pages, $750 make a feast of these leftovers, re-creating mighty collaborations among artists such as Picasso, Braque, Matisse and Miró and choreographers like Nijinsky, Léonid Massine and Michel Fokine. Photo-Op: Modernism à la Russe
- Many of his leading male dancers became his lovers — though Nijinsky was the most celebrated, there were also L é onide Massine and Serge Lifar. Beauty of the Ballets Russes
- 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
- Nijinsky's was about a mythological creature who encounters nymphs in a wood on a summer afternoon.