'Nijinsky': Homage To an Icon

From: The Washington Post | Date: February 20, 2004| Author: Lisa Traiger | Copyright information

JOHN NEUMEIER can't shake his fascination with Vaslav Nijinsky. Nijinsky was the great early 20th-century ballet dancer who for a brief time between 1909 and 1915 captured the hearts of theatergoers around the world before succumbing to an incapacitating mental illness. Neumeier, a Milwaukee native, has been director and chief choreographer of the Hamburg Ballet-John Neumeier in Germany since 1983. On Wednesday, he'll be in Washington to see his company make its area debut with Neumeier's ful...

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