Dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, who performed with the Balles Russes, was celebrated for his gravity–defying leaps and onstage intensity. He began dancing at the age of three, and was admitted to St Petersburg’s Imperial School of Ballet only six years later. He met ballet impresario Serge Diaghileff in 1908, and joined the company, with his sensual choreography sparking outrage in theatres across Europe.
In 2000, for the fiftieth anniversary of the Polish-Russian dancer’s death, John Neumeier, the director of Hamburg Ballet, choreographed a full–length ballet that charts the dancer’s rise and fall.
The ballet plays out in the dancer’s memory, during his last performance in Switzerland. It narrates his troubled family life and the bitter love triangle which forced him to split with his ballet company, before it traces his distressing final years in and out of mental asylums.
Type of Event: Dance
Venue: Adelaide Festival Centre
Festival Theatre
King William St
Adelaide SA 5000
Date: from 14 to 19 October 2016
Price: from $41
Website: Adelaide Festival Centre
Telephone: (08) 8216 8600
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