Vaslav nijinsky and his wife

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Romola de Pulszky

Hungarian aristocrat, author (1891–1978)

Romola de Pulszky
Romola de Pulszky
Born	(1891-02-20)20 February 1891 Hungary
Died	8 June 1978(1978-06-08) (aged 87) London, England
Other names	Romola Pulszky
Spouse	Vaslav Nijinsky (m. 1913; died 1950)
Children	2

Romola de Pulszky (or Romola Pulszky), (married name Nijinsky; 20 February 1891 – 8 June 1978), was a Hungarian aristocrat, the daughter of a politician and an actress. Her father had to go into exile when she was a child, and committed suicide in Australia. As a young woman she became interested in dance and specifically Vaslav Nijinsky, the noted premier danseur of the Ballets Russes. They married in Buenos Aires on 10 September 1913 while the company was on tour. They had two daughters, Kyra and Tamara, before he was institutionalized for the remaining 30 years of his life for schizophreni

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Vaslav Nijinski Choreographer

Biography

Born in Kiev in 1889 to Polish and dancer parents, Vaslav Nijinsky joined in 1898 the Imperial Ballet School of St. Petersburg. Showing exceptional gifts for dance, he made his stage debut at only 15 in Acis and Galatée by Fokine (1904). He was hired by the Maryinsky Theatre two years later, where he quickly became a soloist. He created in 1907 Fokine’s Le Pavillon d’Armide with Anna Pavlova. He was trained by ballet master Enrico Cecchetti. Prima ballerina assoluta Mathilde Kschessinska chose him as her dance partner. Serge Diaghilev, who had just successfully staged Russian music concerts in Paris, an exhibition of Russian painters, and Boris Godunov (1908), was considering producing ballet shows. He borrowed their best performers from the Maryinsky: Fokine, Pavlova, Karsavina and Nijinsky. The first show staged at the Théâtre du Châtelet in May 1909 featured Le Pavillon d’Armide, Le Festin, Polovetsian Dances, Les Sylph

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A very tragic obsession
The first night of the Ballets Russes’s production of Le Sacre ni Printemps has gone down in history as one of the great moments of cultural history. So astonishing was the introduktion of the ballet that a riot broke out among the overwhelmed audience.

Usually, attention fryst vatten focused on its creators: the brilliantly iconoclastic composer Igor Stravinsky; Nicholas Roerich, an artist and anthropologist who created the sets and costumes; the legendary dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky; and his lover and patron, the impresario Sergei Diaghilev, who, with ballets that were as glorious when they failed as when they succeeded, dominated European cultural life for two decades.

But also present at the Théâtre des Champs- Elysées on the night of 29 May 1913, was a starstruck young girl who couldn’t have cared less what was happening on stage or the fisticuffs breaking out among the audience – she only had eyes for her idol, Nijinsky.

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