Vaslav Nijinsky
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A prodigy from his youth in Russia, Vaslav Nijinsky came to international fame as a principal dancer in Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. In December 1917, Nijinsky - by then the most famous male dancer in the Western world - moved into a Swiss villa with his wife and three-year-old daughter and began to go mad. When psychosis struck, he imagined himself as married to God. Although he lived another 30 years, he never regained his sanity. This diary,...
Publisher
Bel Air Classiques
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
L'oiseau de feu: Ivan Tsarevich enlists the help of the Firebird to free his beloved Tsarevna from the grasp of the cruel magician, Kostchei; Le sacre du printemps: A pagan Slavonic tribe assembles on the occasion of a feast devoted to the sacred spring. One of the girls has to be made a human sacrifice to the Sun God according to the choice of the Possessed. The choice is the beloved of the Shepard who has to find a way of saving her. A protest against...
