Vaslav Nijinsky could leap so high that audiences believed he was defying gravity. He was the most celebrated male dancer of the twentieth century and, for a brief, incandescent period, its most radical choreographer — The Rite of Spring and Afternoon of a Faun scandalized Paris and reinvented what dance could express. Then schizophrenia consumed him, and he spent the last thirty years of his life in and out of psychiatric institutions, never performing again.
This episode traces Nijinsky from his Russian-Polish dance family through the Ballets Russes triumphs, the choreographic revolution, and the mental collapse that silenced one of the most extraordinary artists of the modern era.
Nijinsky's prodigious training at the Imperial Ballet School and his legendary leap
The Ballets Russes partnership with Diaghilev and the roles that made him a global sensation
The Rite of Spring and Afternoon of a Faun — the choreography that caused riots and redefined dance
The onset of schizophrenia, the diary, and thirty years of institutional confinement
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