Nijinsky S Feeling Mind

Author : Nicole Svobodny
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793653543

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Nijinsky's Feeling Mind by Nicole Svobodny Pdf

Nijinsky's Feeling Mind: The Dancer Writes, The Writer Dances is the first in-depth literary study of Vaslav Nijinsky's life-writing. Through close textual analysis combined with intellectual biography and literary theory, Nicole Svobodny puts the spotlight on Nijinsky as reader. She elucidates Nijinsky's riffs on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche, equating these intertextual connections to "marking" a dance, whereby the dancer uses a reduction strategy situated between thinking and doing. By exploring the intersections of bodily movement with verbal language, this book addresses broader questions of how we sense and make sense of our worlds. Drawing on archival research, along with studies in psychology and philosophy, Svobodny emphasizes the modernist contexts from which the dancer-writer emerged at the end of World War I. Nijinsky began his life-writing—a book he titled Feeling—the day after the Paris Peace Conference opened, and the same day he performed his "last dance." Nijinsky's Feeling Mind begins with the dancer on stage and concludes as he invites readers into his private room. Illuminating the structure, plot, medium, and mode of Feeling, this study calls on readers to grapple with a paradox: the more the dancer insists on his writing as a live performance, the more he points to the material object that entombs it.

Author : Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226745183

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Modern Art & the Remaking of Human Disposition by Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen Pdf

How artists at the turn of the twentieth century broke with traditional ways of posing the bodies of human figures to reflect modern understandings of human consciousness. With this book, Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen brings a new formal and conceptual rubric to the study of turn-of-the-century modernism, transforming our understanding of the era’s canonical works. Butterfield-Rosen analyzes a hitherto unexamined formal phenomenon in European art: how artists departed from conventions for posing the human figure that had long been standard. In the decades around 1900, artists working in different countries and across different media began to present human figures in strictly frontal, lateral, and dorsal postures. The effect, both archaic and modern, broke with the centuries-old tradition of rendering bodies in torsion, with poses designed to simulate the human being’s physical volume and capacity for autonomous thought and movement. This formal departure destabilized prevailing visual codes for signifying the existence of the inner life of the human subject. Exploring major works by Georges Seurat, Gustav Klimt, and the dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky— replete with new archival discoveries—Modern Art and the Remaking of Human Disposition combines intensive formal analysis with inquiries into the history of psychology and evolutionary biology. In doing so, it shows how modern understandings of human consciousness and the relation of mind to body were materialized in art through a new vocabulary of postures and poses.

Author : Waslaw Nijinsky,Vaslaw Nijinsky
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1968-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520009452

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The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky by Waslaw Nijinsky,Vaslaw Nijinsky Pdf

00 Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950), the "God of Dance," was on the verge of a mental breakdown when he wrote this diary as an outlet for his views on religion, art, love, and life. The diary provides unique insight into the inner life of a highly gifted but mentally disturbed creative genius. Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950), the "God of Dance," was on the verge of a mental breakdown when he wrote this diary as an outlet for his views on religion, art, love, and life. The diary provides unique insight into the inner life of a highly gifted but mentally disturbed creative genius.

Author : Richard Buckle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781639360550

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Nijinsky by Richard Buckle Pdf

The intoxicating story of one of the greatest dancers in the history of ballet?and the paradox of his profound genius and descent into madness. Vaslav Nijinsky was unique as a dancer, interpretive artist, and choreographic pioneer. His breathtaking performances with the Ballet Russe from 1909 to 1913 took Western Europe by storm. His avant-garde choreography for The Afternoon of the Faune and The Rite of Spring provoked riots when performed and are now regarded as the foundation of modern dance. Through his liaison with the great impresario Diaghilev, he worked with the artistic elite of the time. During the fabulous Diaghilev years he lived in an atmosphere of perpetual hysteria, glamor, and intrigue. Then, in 1913, he married a Hungarian aristocrat, Romola de Pulszky, and was abruptly dismissed from the Ballet Russe. Five years later, he was declared insane. The fabulous career as the greatest dancer who ever lived was over. Drawing on countless people who knew and worked with Nijinsky, Richard Buckle has written the definitive biography of the legendary dancer.

Author : Anika Walke,Jan Musekamp,Nicole Svobodny
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253025081

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Migration and Mobility in the Modern Age by Anika Walke,Jan Musekamp,Nicole Svobodny Pdf

A collection that “eloquently examines the numerous forms of movement from and across Central, Eastern Europe and Russia from a historical perspective” (Comparative Literature Studies). Combining methodological and theoretical approaches to migration and mobility studies with detailed analyses of historical, cultural, or social phenomena, the works collected here provide an interdisciplinary perspective on how migrations and mobility altered identities and affected images of the “other.” From walkways to railroads to airports, the history of travel provides a context for considering the people and events that have shaped Central and Eastern Europe and Russia.

Author : Vaslaw Nijinsky,Waslaw Nijinsky
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Ballet dancers
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky by Vaslaw Nijinsky,Waslaw Nijinsky Pdf

Author : Murray Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317536888

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Creativity and Psychotic States in Exceptional People by Murray Jackson Pdf

Creativity and Psychotic States in Exceptional People tells the story of the lives of four exceptionally gifted individuals: Vincent van Gogh, Vaslav Nijinsky, José Saramago and John Nash. Previously unpublished chapters by Murray Jackson are set in a contextual framework by Jeanne Magagna, revealing the wellspring of creativity in the subjects’ emotional experiences and delving into the nature of psychotic states which influence and impede the creative process. Jackson and Magagna aim to illustrate how psychoanalytic thinking can be relevant to people suffering from psychotic states of mind and provide understanding of the personalities of four exceptionally talented creative individuals. Present in the text are themes of loving and losing, mourning and manic states, creating as a process of repairing a sense of internal damage and the use of creativity to understand or run away from oneself. The book concludes with a glossary of useful psychoanalytic concepts. Creativity and Psychotic States in Exceptional People will be fascinating reading for psychiatrists, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, other psychoanalytically informed professionals, students and anyone interested in the relationship between creativity and psychosis.

Author : Deirdre Kelly
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781771640008

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Ballerina by Deirdre Kelly Pdf

Throughout her history, the ballerina has been perceived as the embodiment of beauty and perfection--the feminine ideal. But the reality is another story. From the earliest ballerinas in the 17th century--who often led double lives as concubines--through the poverty of the corps de ballet dancers in the 1800's and the anorexic and bulimic ballerinas of George Balanchine, starvation and exploitation have plagued ballerinas throughout history. Using the stories of great dancers such as Anna Pavlova, Isadora Duncan, Suzanne Farrell, Gelsey Kirkland, Evelyn Hart, Marie Camargo, and Misty Copeland, Deirdre Kelly exposes the true rigors for women in ballet. She rounds her critique with examples of how the world of ballet is slowly evolving for the better. But to ensure that this most graceful of dance forms survives into the future, she says that the time has come to rethink ballet, to position the ballerina at its center and accord her the respect she deserves.

Author : Geoffrey Arundel Whitworth,Dorothy Mullock
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Art
ISBN : EAN:4064066064013

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The Art of Nijinsky by Geoffrey Arundel Whitworth,Dorothy Mullock Pdf

Waslaw Nijinsky was born in Warsaw, the son of two professional dancers. At nine years he transferred to St Petersburg Imperial ballet and was then headhunted by the impresario Serge Diaghilev, where he became the lead dancer of his forward-looking ballet company.. His skill and grace were undeniable and when the company first visited Britain in the early 1900s the London audiences had seen nothing comparable and were spellbound. Nijinsky was famous for his ability to almost hover in the air, and his technical brilliance.

Author : Peter F. Ostwald
Publisher : Robson Books Limited
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1861052502

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Vaslav Nijinsky by Peter F. Ostwald Pdf

That Nijinsky was a genius is rarely disputed. He was the most adulated virtuoso in ballet history. His electrifying performances became legendary, and his controversial choreographies caused an uproar in the sedate theaters of Paris and London. However his exceptional talent was overshadowed by violent outbursts and periods of deep depression which led to great friction in his professional relationships, his homosexual personal relationships were also fiery and obsessive and the cause of much scandal, his marriage was also stormy and discordant, and many of his later years were spent in asylums. His two children, Kyra and Tamara, have requested author Peter Ostwald, a professor of psychiatry, to study Nijinsky's notebooks, his wife's correspondence, medical and other hospital documents and to write this compelling biography to tell what really happened. It sheds new light on a life that has fascinated generations.

Author : Larraine Nicholas,Geraldine Morris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136485077

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Rethinking Dance History by Larraine Nicholas,Geraldine Morris Pdf

By taking a fresh approach to the study of history in general, Alexandra Carter's Rethinking Dance History offers new perspectives on important periods in dance history and seeks to address some of the gaps and silences left within that history. Encompassing ballet, South Asian, modern dance forms and much more, this book provides exciting new research on topics as diverse as: *the Victorian music hall *film musicals and popular music videos *the impact of Neoclassical fashion on ballet *women's influence on early modern dance *methods of dance reconstruction. Featuring work by some of the major voices in dance writing and discourse, this unique anthology will prove invaluable for both scholars and practitioners, and a source of interest for anyone who is fascinated by dance's rich and multi-layered history.

Author : Alexandra Carter,Larraine Nicholas,Geraldine Morris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136485008

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Rethinking Dance History by Alexandra Carter,Larraine Nicholas,Geraldine Morris Pdf

By taking a fresh approach to the study of history in general, Alexandra Carter's Rethinking Dance History offers new perspectives on important periods in dance history and seeks to address some of the gaps and silences left within that history. Encompassing ballet, South Asian, modern dance forms and much more, this book provides exciting new research on topics as diverse as: *the Victorian music hall *film musicals and popular music videos *the impact of Neoclassical fashion on ballet *women's influence on early modern dance *methods of dance reconstruction. Featuring work by some of the major voices in dance writing and discourse, this unique anthology will prove invaluable for both scholars and practitioners, and a source of interest for anyone who is fascinated by dance's rich and multi-layered history.

Author : John Spiegel
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1575910373

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Dimensions of Laughter in Crime and Punishment by John Spiegel Pdf

"Since human laughter served, in a sense, as Dostoevsky's model, the author pays some heed to the highly controversial subject of real-life laughter, along with the leading theories that seek to elucidate its causes and implications.".

Author : Ann Hutchinson Guest,Claudia Jeschke
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 2881248195

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Nijinsky's Faune Restored by Ann Hutchinson Guest,Claudia Jeschke Pdf

This third volume in The Language of Dance series presents Nijinsky's ballet as he himself recorded it in 1915, making this authentic version, translated into Labanotation, immediately available to dance students, teachers, scholars and researchers. It intentionally includes the historical background, the chronology of Niminsky's performances of "Faune," Nijinsky's production notes, analysis of the choreographic style of the ballet, detailed study and performance notes, approaches to learning and teaching the ballet, research problems encountered in the transcription and revival, and a comprehensive explanation of Nijinsky's notation system with examples from his score. Supplemented by photographs of the 1912 production and with the music adjacent to the dance phrases, this book provides unique access to a much discussed and elusive ballet. Nijinsky's score of his "L'Apres-midi d'un faune" lay unused for nearly forty years after his death, because nobody could read it. In 1987

Author : George Balanchine,Francis Mason
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1975-05-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780385033985

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101 Stories of the Great Ballets by George Balanchine,Francis Mason Pdf

Authored by one of the ballet's most respected experts, this volume includes scene-by-scene retellings of the most popular classic and contemporary ballets, as performed by the world's leading dance companies. Certain to delight long-time fans as well as those just discovering the beauty and drama of ballet.