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Vaslav Nijinsky
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People like eccentrics and they will therefore leave me alone, saying that I am a "mad clown.
— As quoted in Vaslav Nijinsky : A Leap into Madness by Peter F. Ostwald, Ch. 8: Playing the Role of a Madman, p. 176
Vaslav Nijinsky
Polish-Russian ballet dancer and choreographer
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- Fame56.8
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- Comedians rank#244
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Lived 1889–1950, aged 61
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He leapt so high audiences thought the laws of physics bent for him alone. Nijinsky danced en pointe when other men couldn't, turned ballet feral and modern, and burned out so fast the century barely got to see him whole.
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Born in Russia to Polish parents in 1889 or 1890, Nijinsky joined Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and became the face of ballet's break with the past. His virtuosity was technical—he could do en pointe, nearly unheard of for men—but it was the intensity in his body that made people stare. Between 1912 and 1916 he choreographed L'après-midi d'un faune, the riot-starting Le Sacre du Printemps, Jeux, and Till Eulenspiegel, each one a shove toward something rawer. The leaps looked like defying gravity because, for a second, they were. He didn't dance long enough to grow old in the role.
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