SWIRL OF NIJINSKY'S ART AND ARTIFACTS ON DISPLAY AT FRYE.(Entertainment)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | Date: September 27, 1997| Author: Josslin, Victoria | Copyright information

The idea of what we're not going to see in this exhibition - Nijinsky dancing - looms over the actual objects on view at the Frye's new exhibition, ``The Art of Vaslav Nijinsky,'' which opened yesterday.

The exhibition includes one room of objects, costumes, documents and artwork pertaining to Nijinsky's dancing and choreography, and another room of his own drawings, done over the many years of his mental illness. The result is beautiful, intriguing and frustrating.

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