After finishing his studies, he became a member of the Imperial Ballet, performed in Mariinsky Theatre, and performed Mozart's DanGiovan Mountain on April 29th, and performed in most fixed plays. At this time, he was less than 20 years old, but he was already famous in St. Petersburg.
Try to make a living as a private dance teacher. It was then that he met the famous art agent Dia Gilev, which was the turning point of Nijinsky's life. Nijinsky and Dia Gilev became lovers, and Dia Gilev participated in the management and planning of his career. Dia Gilev showed Nijinsky around galleries, museums and palaces, paid attention to his reading and diet, took good care of him and provided him with the best creative conditions. On the other hand, he created a vacuum around him, keeping him away from the real world. Dia Gilev wanted Nijinsky to be his own, just like a magician pretending to be a puppet. He can't have any sense of self.
Participated in the "Russian Performance Season" organized by Dia Gilev in Paris and London. This performance made Russian ballet and opera an unprecedented success in the west, and also enabled Dia Gilev, choreographer Michel Fagin and designer Leon Beske to establish the famous ballet Russia. Ballets russes, the Paris dance season, caused a great sensation in the art world and society, and influenced the trend of art, dance, music and fashion for decades. He was only 19 years old when he played the leading role in Fu Jin's new dance drama Carnival, Daphne and Gloria. But his dance conquered Paris overnight and became the central topic of discussion in aristocratic salons and streets. In the following three years, during the ballet season held by Dia Gilev in Paris, Nikinsky successfully created a series of unforgettable images: the Egyptian slave in Scheherazade, the flower soul in Le Spectre de la Rose, the abused and discriminated puppet in Peter Routschka, and the carnival. His descending speed is slower than his ascending speed, and he can cross-hit 12 times before and after jumping in the air, and his legs can be completed quickly. 19 10, Nijinsky returned to Mariinsky Theatre, but was dismissed because he didn't wear dignified shorts under tights as usual when he performed Albordt in Giselle.
The one-act play Afternoon of the Faun, which premiered in Paris on May 29th, is Nijinsky's debut, marking the beginning of his directing career. This piece of music is Debussy's Afternoon Prelude to the God of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry. There are only eight actors in the whole play, and the performance time is ten minutes. Dance Description: In summer, the river bank is shaded by trees, and the shepherd, who is half man and half beast, fondles his flute and picks grapes and dances lazily in the sun. Seven beautiful fairies came to bathe in the river one after another. The faun can't help sprouting from Chun Qing and instinctively breaking into them. The fairies fled in horror, leaving only a bold fairy standing still out of curiosity. In the dance, the arrogant behavior and rude courtship of the pastoral god finally made her irresistible and left in a hurry. The god of agriculture and animal husbandry kissed her headscarf in frustration, lay on the floor and took a nap in the sun.
Afternoon of the Faun is a work with brand-new skills and dance language, which marks the arrival of the modern ballet era in the middle of the twentieth century. In the later performances, due to the different understandings of the performers, the play has undergone various changes.
Nijinsky directed The Sacrifice of Spring. Stravinsky is in charge of music, and the cooperation between Stravinsky and Nikinsky is constantly in conflict and often ends in discord. Stravinsky always complains that Nikinsky doesn't know music and has too much imagination. In fact, Nijinsky has already crossed the beat, tune and rhythm, and a wild heart directly understands the original mystery in music, just as Stravinsky has long seen the damage caused by the extraordinary physique and his genius of this male dancer. Nijinsky and Dia Gilev loved this revolutionary work. When rehearsing the Sacrifice of Spring, Nijinsky always counts the beats in his own way, and Stravinsky doesn't know what Java beats he counts. He shouted to the dancers, "I'll count to 40, you go."
According to the modelling of Russian primitive statues, Nijinsky designed the basic posture of "Spring Festival": the feet are stretched inward, the knees are slightly bent, and the back is camel. All movements, including rotation and jumping, originate from this posture. This made the ballet dancers who regarded the "external eight characters" as the basic training and physical characteristics suffer greatly, and also attracted their dissatisfaction and laziness. After 130 rehearsals, this work with distinctive Russian style and strong original expressionism was put on the stage of the Champs Elysé es in Paris on May 29th. 19 13. At present, we can't find the dance score of "Sacrifice to Spring" choreographed by Nikinsky. Only some black-and-white photography works and the daily newspaper on the premiere day of 19 13 "Sacrifice to Spring" are archived in the Paris Library. In the music of the dance music, the dancers are dressed in Russian folk white robes, with different folk patterns embroidered on the neckline, cuffs and skirts, and headdresses of the same series tied on their foreheads. Their faces were painted white, their cheekbones were red, and they looked dull, as if they had just stepped down from ancient murals.
During the tour of the South American Dance Company, Nijinsky fell in love with the Hungarian actress Romola Pulszky, and soon held a lightning wedding in Buenos Aires, which led to the complete breakdown of his relationship with Dia Gilev. Dyagilev sent him a telegram telling Nikinsky that he had lost his position in the ballet. Daughter Kira was born. In the same year, Nikinsky organized a small ballet company to perform in London, and signed a huge contract with London Palace Theatre with weekly salary 1000. 19 14 On March 2nd, he performed "Fairy" and "Rose Fairy" with his own dance troupe. However, due to poor management, the theater suffered heavy losses and the contract was terminated two weeks later. When Dia Gilev Troupe toured the United States, he returned to the troupe to play the leading role and directed the ballet Oren Spiegel.
On April 8, Nikinsky died in London. His body was buried next to the graves of the ballet representatives Westeris and Gautier in18th century and19th century.