Nijinsky

Noun

Meaning

Russian dancer considered by many to be the greatest dancer of the 20th century (1890-1950)

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Examples

I have a penchant for playing God's clowns. Actually, I played Nijinsky once, and he used to call himself God's clown. Stephen Lang

I saw every performance Nijinsky danced in New York, and I see every baseball game I can get to. You watch a good second baseman digging for a badly thrown ball without letting his foot leave base and it's the same beautiful impossibility as a good pas de deux in Swan Lake. Rex Stout

Hebetude. It is a graph of a theme that flings The dancer kneeling on nothing into the wings, And Nijinsky hadn't the words to make the laws For learning to loiter in air; he merely said, "I merely leap and pause." Richard Wilbur

Another ballet, Sheherazade, choreographed by Michel Fokine in 1910 to music by Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakov, is a story involving a shah's wife and her illicit relations with a Golden Slave, originally played by Vaslav Nijinsky. Source: Internet

Diaghilev dismissed Nijinsky summarily from the Ballets Russes after the dancer's marriage in 1913. Source: Internet

I’m told the time of her last two furlongs was the fastest ever in a King George — 25.56sec, beating the previous quickest of 25.62sec when Nijinsky won. Source: Internet

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