Nijinsky

[ni-zhin-skee, -jin-, nyi-zhin-skyee]

noun

1. Vaslav or Waslaw 1890–1950, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer.

Nijinsky

/ nɪˈdʒɪnskɪ /

noun

1. Waslaw or Vaslaw (vatsˈlaf). 1890–1950, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, who was associated with Diaghilev. His creations include settings of Stravinsky's Petrushka and The Rite of Spring

Example Sentences

Johnson, 22 and fresh out of art school, had immersed himself in books on modern dance subjects — Vaslav Nijinsky, Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham.

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Ball’s came in “Afternoon of a Faun,” in which he subtly infused his role with an air of Nijinsky.

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Nijinsky, whose artistic life was cut short by mental illness at 29, composed four ballets, among them the epochal “Rite of Spring.”

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The movement for “Afternoon of a Faun” alludes to the two-dimensional choreography of Nijinsky’s dance to that Debussy piece, a nod to a predecessor of Naharin’s stylized animality.

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Her work deploys physical ideas and images from Petipa, Balanchine, Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham, Erick Hawkins, Nijinsky and more, but shifts lightly among them.

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