NIJINSKY (1980)
Directed by Herbert Ross
CAST:
Alan Bates .... Sergei Diaghilev
George De La Pena .... Vaslav Nijinsky
Leslie Browne .... Romola de Pulsky
Alan Badel .... Baron de Gunzburg
Carla Fracci .... Tamara Karsavina
Colin Blakely .... Vassili
Ronald Pickup .... Igor Stravinsky
Ronald Lacey .... Leon Bakst
Vernon Dobtcheff .... Sergei Grigoriev
Jeremy Irons .... Mikhail Fokine
Frederick Jaeger .... Gabriel Astruc
Anton Dolin .... Maestro Cecchetti
Janet Suzman .... Emilia Marcus
Stephan Chase .... Adolph Bolm
Hetty Baynes .... Magda
Siân Phillips .... Lady Ripon
Charles Kay .... Argentine Ambassador |  |
SYNOPSIS:
Set in the early 1910s at a time of passionate artistic experimentalism and based on biographical fact, this is the story of Vaslav Nijinsky, the young and brilliant but headstrong premiere danseur and aspiring choreographer of the Ballets Russes. The company is managed by the famous Sergei Diaghilev, a controlling and fiercely possessive impresario. The increasing tension between these powerful egos, exacerbated by homosexual desire and jealousy, becomes triangular when the young ballerina Romola de Pulsky determinedly attempts to draw the increasingly mentally unstable Nijinsky away from Diaghilev.
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TRIVIA:
• Nijinsky features several fellow British thespians Mr. Kay worked with before and after this production, including Alan Bates, Ronald Pickup and Siân Phillips.
LINKS:
http:// Vaslav Nijinsky: Creating a New Artistic Era (NYPL)
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