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Kyra Nijinsky, almond-eyed, 30-year-old dancing daughter of the fabulous Vaslav Nijinsky,* having survived two Nazi imprisonments, was holding ballet classes for WACs in Florence...
Spectacular Serge. By far the most spectacular collaborationist in Parisian musical circles was the famed Russian ballet dancer, Serge Lifar, whom some critics regard as the inheritor of the pink tights of the great Vaslav Nijinsky. Lifar had not only spent the days of German occupation as the toast of the Wehrmacht's more sybaritic officer set; he crowed publicly over each new feat of German arms. Up to last week, the F.F.I, had been unable to find Serge Lifar. He was in hiding, periodically telephoning his friends...
Bronislava Nijinska, Diaghilev alumna, sister of the great Vaslav Nijinsky, and currently No. 1 choreographer for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo...
After 18 years in a Swiss insane asylum, Dancer Vaslav Nijinsky in 1937 began to show marked improvement, was released last fall, is now living in Adelboden, Switzerland. Last week pictures reached the U. S. showing Nijinsky once more in the normal world: accepting a glass of wine from his wife, Romola, looking speculatively at a bin of vegetables in a Swiss market place, in concerned conversation with friends, smiling warmly (for months at a time he never smiled...
...except surgical patients, in the psychiatric division. For Bellevue psychiatrists this meant precisely what a new and rangier telescope would mean to an observatory. Day by day they could study in sequence the attempts at expression by mentally sick people. Though the art of individual schizophrenics, among them Dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, has been analyzed in the past as a matter of psychiatric routine, Director Karl Bowman of the Psychiatric Division thinks Bellevue was the first to practice such extensive therapeutic use of painting, such systematic study of the results...