The Art of Nijinsky

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Geoffrey Arundel Whitworth. The Art of Nijinsky

The Art of Nijinsky

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

NIJINSKY

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II. THE CAREER OF NIJINSKY

CHAPTER III. THE ART OF NIJINSKY

CHAPTER IV. THE BALLETS

CHAPTER V THE NEW PHASE

CHAPTER VI. CONCLUSION

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Geoffrey Arundel Whitworth, Dorothy Mullock

Published by Good Press, 2020

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The aim of this essay, then, is, first and foremost, to preserve an impression. As to its manner, I need only forestall, if it may be, one possible objection. "You call your book," someone might say, "The Art of Nijinsky. Very well. But there are pages and pages occupied with quite extraneous things. … We thought to find ​the appreciation of an artistic personality, and you give us irrelevant views on the art of the ballet as a whole!"

The fact is, of course, that it would be absurd to attempt the appreciation of an art like Nijinsky's by any method that excluded some treatment, at least, of the medium in which that art displays itself. This is true, certainly, of the art of every dancer, but in the present case especially so; if only because Nijinsky has chosen to throw in his lot with that movement in the modern theatre which is antagonistic to anything like an undue emphasis on the talent of the individual.

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