Death of a Faun, with actor-dancer Nicholas Johnson as the legendary dancer, recently played Off-Off-Broadway, at St. Clements Theatre. Formerly a dancer with The Royal Ballet and English National ...

Powerful, brilliant and gay, Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev famously started the Ballets Russes in Paris in 1909, smartly bringing together the best artists, composers, choreographers, dancers ...

NEW YORK, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- It has been more than 80 years since Vaslav Nijinsky danced in public, but a major exhibition of memorabilia illustrating the career of the greatest male ballet dancer of ...

MONTE CARLO — The fourth biennial Nijinsky Awards, considered the Oscars of the dance world, were presented Thursday on a stage where, nearly a century ago, legendary dancer and choreographer Vaslav ...

On closing night in Melbourne's State Theatre, there is a euphoric energy as members of Orchestra Victoria warm up in the orchestra pit. The audience is here to witness the Australian Ballet's ...

John Neumeier’s Nijinsky must be one of the best-dressed ballets ever seen at City Center, especially given the fact that it’s about a massive mental breakdown. Then again, it’s Nijinsky’s breakdown, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Not many new books use critical blurbs from 1950 to promote their contents, but “Nijinsky: God of Dance” isn’t a typical book. It’s more like a gallery of ...

The set-up: Vaslav Nijinsky was a complicated character. Renowned as one of the greatest ballet dancers of all time, he changed the face of the art through his distinctively angular, sexually-charged ...

Terrence McNally’s ‘Fire and Air’ focuses on the impresario Diaghilev’s romantic relationship with the legendary Nijinsky, and clashing themes of love, need, and ambition. Senior Editor and Writer A ...

Don’t expect actor Darnea Steve Olson to try any ballet moves during Nijinsky’s Last Dance, being presented by Edge Theatre. Olson plays a total of nine characters in the show, including Nijinsky at ...