More than a century after legendary ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky penned a diary in a state of psychosis, McGill University researchers have mined the pages to learn more about how mental illness can ...

An exhibition at the Morgan, drawn from its collection of musical manuscripts, sheds light on one of the most collaborative periods in dance. By Alice Courtright Lynn Garafola’s “La Nijinska” tells ...

Before being diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1919, legendary Russian ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky was planning to stage what would have been Argentina’s first ever ballet piece. Caaporá, a tale of ...

Next week, he’ll return to The Joyce Theater to pay homage to an unrealized, century-old vision from Vaslav Nijinsky, which Cornejo has reimagined in the powerful ballet, Anima Animal. Influenced by ...

Vaslav Nijinsky — a great, troubled, self-destructive artist who spent the end of his life in psychiatric hospitals — was the world’s most famous dancer a century ago. His shocking story is the ...

The background to “Anima Animal,” the 58-minute dance devised by Herman Cornejo with choreography by Anabella Tuliano and first performed in 2022 in Argentina, concerns Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950), ...

New York has not seen a real Russian ballet since Diaghilev and the great Nijinsky went back to Europe 16 years ago. It was, therefore, rare and oldtime glamour that filled St. James Theatre one night ...

Silas Riener '06 and Natasha Kalimada '07 furrow their brows in concentration. The directors call out instructions — "Move your thumb higher," and "Hand about two inches to the right" — words I never ...

A valuable testimony that approaches the essence of Nijinsky who did not leave a video. Boris Kochno, who was at the center of Russian ballet, vividly tells how Nijinsky, who had fallen ill, witnessed ...