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Nijinsky on YouTube
Nijinsky on YouTube
Film of the famous dancer - real or fake?
Saturday, 17 October 2009
Fleeting snippets of Vaslav Nijinsky apparently dancing on primitive film do, astonishingly, seem to capture his legendary liquidity of movement and capacity for making stillness arresting. But are they real?
Here he is in 1910, dancing the Golden Slave in Sheherazade:
Several sequences from his L'après-midi d'un faune, 1912, top and below:
What is the chatter heard on the first film? Is it the voices of Diaghilev and his colleagues while the sequence is being filmed?
In fact, the films are computer-generated by a digital artist using remarkably convincing techniques not very different from those employed by reconstructors of historic choreography.
Read http://boingboing.net/2009/06/25/mysterious-youtube-v.html to discover more.
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