Nijinsky

In the organizer's words:

"Nijinsky's life can be summed up simply: ten years of growing, ten years of learning, ten years of dancing, thirty years of eclipse," biographer Richard Buckle once put it. The work and life of the century-old dancer Nijinsky has been an inexhaustible theme for John Neumeier since his youth. The ballet he created in 2000 about this shining light of dance is about the biography of a soul, interwoven with memories and associations, sensations and states. John Neumeier's choreographic approaches aim to create a present from the past with newly determined power relations and fields of tension that capture Nijinsky's magic on stage as well as his dangers beyond the theater.


Music: Frédéric Chopin, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Dmitri Shostakovich, Robert Schumann
Choreography, stage design and costumes: John Neumeier
with partial use of original designs by Léon Bakst and Alexandre Benois

2 hours 30 minutes | 1 intermission
1st part: 65 minutes, 2nd part: 60 minutes

WORLD PREMIERE:
Hamburg Ballet, Hamburg, July 2, 2000

ORIGINAL CAST:
Vaslav Nijinsky: Jirí Bubenícek
Romola Nijinsky: Anna Polikarpova
Bronislava Nijinska: Elizabeth Loscavio
Stanislav Nijinsky: Yukichi Hattori
Serge Diaghilev: Ivan Urban
Eleonora Bereda: Joëlle Boulogne
Thomas Nijinsky: Carsten Jung
The Ballerina, Tamara Karsavina: Heather Jurgensen
The new dancer, Leonid Massine: Guido Warsany
The Dancer Nijinsky: as Harlequin in "Carnaval": Alexandre Riabko
as the Ghost of the Rose in "Spectre de la rose": Alexandre Riabko
as Golden Slave in "Scheherazade": Otto Bubenícek
as young man in "Jeux": Guido Warsany
as Faun in "L'Après-midi d'un faune": Otto Bubenícek
as Petrushka in "Petrushka": Lloyd Riggins

GUEST PERFORMANCE:
2001 Hanover 2002 Copenhagen, Baden-Baden 2003 Hong Kong, Madrid, Paris, St. Petersburg 2004 New York, Orange County (CA), Reggio Emilia, Washington 2005 Tokyo 2009 Monte-Carlo 2011 Stuttgart 2012 Beijing, Shanghai, Brisbaine 2013 Chicago, San Francisco 2017 Baden-Baden 2018 Tokyo 2020 Macau

IN THE REPERTOIRE:
The Australian Ballet
The National Ballet of Canada