Saturday, May 19, 2007


VASLAV NIJINSKI
Was born in Kiev, Ukraine, on March 12, 1890, his father, his mother, and his sister were dancers.
Vaslav had many difficult to made friends.


At the age of ten Vaslav, brought to the Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg by his parents. He was auditioned and accepted for both academic and ballet training.
In 1907 performed “Don Juan”, at Marinski theater, after in 1908 was graduated from the

Imperial School with honors and a few months later was partnering leading ballerinas on the stage of the Imperial Theatre in St. Petersburg.
After met Sergei Diaghilev an big manager and he a group of Russian dancers to Paris.
Vaslay danced in many pictures: escalvo negro in Seherazada", arlequin in “Carnaval”, “El Espectro de la Rosa”, Le Pavillon d’Armide, Cléopâtre, Les Sylphides, Carnaval, Les Orientales, Le Dieu Bleu, Narcisse, Daphnis et Chloé.
In 1914 vaslav married in Buenos Aires with the dancer Ramola de Pulszky.
In the spring of 1914 Nijinsky made an unsuccessful attempt to start his own company, and signs of mental illness began to appear.

Vaslav Nijinsky died in 1953 and is buried in Paris. Romola died in 1978. Daughter Kyra Nijinsky, born in 1914, painted many dance portraits of Vaslav, although she never saw her father dance. Daughter Tamara, born in 1920, worked with puppets.

2 comments:

Norma Isabel said...

Sary,I never have listened to talk about your famous person. Why did you chose this person? Do you like to dance? What kind of music danced your famous person?
I tell you than I love dance, it`s the better exercises for the body

Diana Fajardo said...

Sary your article is interesting, I have listened little about this dancer, but I tink the russian people are very good dancers, I like the russian Balled, the russian dance is very exiting.