Vaslav Nijinsky & Lydia Lopokova Russian BALLET DANCERS 1912 Reprint NEW Photo

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Vaslav Nijinsky and
Lydia Lopokova in "Le Carnaval"
, 1912
Lydia Lopokova, Baroness Keynes (born Lidia Vasilyevna Lopukhova 1891 – 1981) was a Russian ballerina famous during the early 20th century.
Lopokova trained at the Imperial Ballet School. She toured with the Ballets Russes in 1910, and rejoined them in 1916 after an interlude in the United States.
Lopokova married the renowned English economist John Maynard Keynes in 1925, and was also known as the Lady Keynes. She largely disappeared from public view after Keynes's death in 1946, and spent her remaining years in Sussex.
Vaslav Nizhinsky
(1889, Kiev, Russian Empire - 1950, London, Great Britain)
Russian dancer and choreographer of Polish origin, dance innovator.
In 1909-1913, the leading dancer and choreographer of the Diaghilev's Russian Ballet troupe.
Choreographer of the ballets The Rite of Spring, Afternoon of a Faun, Games and Till Ulenspiegel.
I have seen few geniuses in this world and Nijinsky is one of them.
He enchanted, he was divine, his mysterious gloom seemed to come from other worlds.
His every movement was poetry.
His every step a flight into strange fancy.
Charles Chaplin
God of Dance, Genius of Ballet - NIJINSKY
Nijinsky became the first international Ballet Star of the 20th century. The first male premier dancer after a century of dominance by female dancers.
He is recognized as the most brilliant dancer who has ever lived on earth.
Nijinsky was a "genius of the air element." Hanging in the air, he landed like a graceful cat, barely touching the stage. When asked to reveal the technique of his jump, Vaslav replied that there is no secret - you just need to jump and stay in the air. How else to explain God's gift? In addition, Nijinsky was endowed with stage magnetism, and acted on the audience like a drug.
He possessed the gift of complete reincarnation.
His success was phenomenal. The expression and beauty of his body, lightness and steel-like strength, his great exaltation and incredible gift to stay in the air, as well as his extraordinary virtuosity and dramatic performance, made him a genius of ballet.
As a choreographer, he was several decades ahead of his time.
He, like a comet, flashed across the ballet horizon and left a special light in the souls of eyewitnesses of his ballet performances. Even half a century later, when the star of Rudolf Nureyev, a new idol and cult figure, rose in the West, the old French balletomanes with nostalgia recalled the dances of Vaslav Nijinsky, his famous soaring, his enchanting images ...
The fate of the great dancer had a fatal predestination, according to which he had to carry out his spiritual mission for half his life, and for half his life - to atone for heavy karma. Madness as payment for genius is one of the cardinal themes of 20th century art.
Nijinsky met and his Mephistopheles, who promised world fame in return for his soul. Obeying him, however, Vaslav did not sign an agreement with him, he fled from him into illness ...
This is a nice reproduction of an original photograph
New print on high quality Fujifilm Photo Paper (
Fujicolor Crystal Archive Paper
Supreme
- Matte paper)
produced in a Professional Fujifilm Photographic
Laboratory
Size: 103 X 153 mm (about
4"x6")
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