An exhibition at the Morgan, drawn from its collection of musical manuscripts, sheds light on one of the most collaborative periods in dance. By Alice Courtright Lynn Garafola’s “La Nijinska” tells ...

The background to “Anima Animal,” the 58-minute dance devised by Herman Cornejo with choreography by Anabella Tuliano and first performed in 2022 in Argentina, concerns Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950), ...

Next week, he’ll return to The Joyce Theater to pay homage to an unrealized, century-old vision from Vaslav Nijinsky, which Cornejo has reimagined in the powerful ballet, Anima Animal. Influenced by ...

Igor Stravinsky’s seminal ballet, “The Rite of Spring,” famously caused an uproar when it debuted in Paris in 1913. Stravinsky’s dissonant score and Vaslav Nijinsky’s staccato choreography struck a ...

To the late great Dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, the Afternoon of a Faun was a lazy, sensual episode in the life of a mythological goat-man; he danced it (to Debussy’s famed music) in horns, tail and dappled ...

In 1917, legendary dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky was invited to stage Caaporá, a ballet inspired by the Guarani indigenous legend of the Urutaú bird—a mystical creature from the forests in ...

For nearly two months in 1919—after his final performance and before he entered an insane asylum—the legendary Polish-Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky filled a diary with feverish reveries on life, art, ...