Monday, January 18, 2010

Nijinsky's Last Dance


Nijinsky as Petrouchka 1910


On January 19, 1919

at five o’clock in the afternoon in a ballroom of the Suvretta House Hotel in St. Moritz, Switzerland, Vaslav Nijinsky danced publicly for the last time. He called this performance his “Wedding with God”.
                 ~~ from the Hamburg Ballet's playbill for Neumeier's ballet Nijinsky





from Nijinsky's handwritten diary - "God Nijinsky"





Nijinsky in England 1945

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