Word: vaslav
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shut away in a Swiss sanatorium is the man the world once knew as the greatest of dancers. For months at a time he speaks no word. He still hears the echo of War guns. His dead, dumb eyes see soldiers dying around him. Sixteen years have passed since Vaslav Nijinsky danced in the U. S. But this winter the re-enact- ment of many of Nijinsky's great roles by the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe has aroused fresh talk of his genius (TIME, Jan. i). Next week will be published the story of Nijinsky's life, written...
...When Vaslav Nijinsky's brain cracked so that he could no longer recognize people or places, his friends had the idea of taking him once more to see the Diaghilev Ballet which he had helped to make the world's greatest dancing corps. Only once during the performance did Nijinsky appear to see through the fog. Serge Lifar, a young protégé of Diaghilev, started to dance Le Spectre de la Rose in which Nijinsky did his never-to-be-forgotten leap through an open window. When the music started Nijinsky's dead, dumb eyes...
...theatregoers had seen a stage decorated by artists of the first rank: Derain. Picasso, Leon Bakst. Ladies in panniered hobble-skirts went into ecstasies over Nijinsky's performance of the Firebird, the Blue Bird, the Slave in Scheherazade, L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune. It was Vaslav Nijinsky who staged and introduced to the world Stravinsky's great Sacre du Printemps with its white bearded barbarians and sonorous gongs...
...return he went to live in St. Moritz, and there, because he could not dance, he began to draw: dance movements, sketches of his daughter, his servants.* It was one of the servants who had been with Nietzsche when that philosopher went mad, who first realized that Vaslav Nijinsky was losing his mind. Nijinsky never became violent, though U. S. newspapers several years ago carried a story that he had been seen trotting round and round a tree under the im pression that he was a horse. He has always had painting materials in his room in the Bellevue Sanitarium...
...Vaslav Nijinsky was by no means unique in turning from dancing to painting. Dancers in the U. S. who have been converted to camas include Paul Swan and Hubert Stowitts. Slim, classic-featured Mr. Swan used to perform rhythmic rites in dark theatres on Sunday nights. Now he covers large canvases with intricate designs, all highly symbolical. Before he turned to painting racial types of India Mr. Stowitts attracted considerable attention in the Parisian press by posturing at private parties completely nude and painted blue. Historian Hendrik Willem van Loon's son Willem Gerard van Loon reversed the process...