Nijinsky

American  

[ni-zhin-skee, -jin-, nyi-zhin-skyee] / nɪˈʒɪn ski, -ˈdʒɪn-, nyɪˈʒɪn skyi /

noun

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

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Nijinsky British  

/ 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

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Example Sentences

Josie said she met Sleep in person years earlier, outside York Theatre Royal's stage door, to give him paintings of the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky which she had created herself.

From BBC

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

From New York Times

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

From New York Times

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

From New York Times

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.

From New York Times