Norman Allen

Nijinsky's Last Dance


Director: Marko Mlačnik


Translator: Jakob J. Kenda
Performed by: Primož Bezjak

Description


Vaslav Nijinsky (1890–1950) was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of Polish origins, but schizophrenia pre-empted his brilliant artistic career in 1919; what followed were three decades of hospitalization in various psychiatric institutions.

Marko Mlačnik’s production begins from the idea that dance, ballet, movement are the very basis of the Nijinsky personality phenomenon.

Are dancers, like Martha Graham said, truly “God's acrobats”? Does the thin line between a genius and a madman exist at all? What is the body’s response to schizophrenia and long-term isolation?


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Cast


Actors:
Primož Bezjak - Vaslav Fomich Nijinsky
  
     
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Author
Norman Allen

Composer
Bojana Šaljić Podešva

Dramaturg
Uršula Cetinski

Choreographer and director's right hand
Mateja Rebolj

Language consultant
Mateja Dermelj

Light designer
Matjaž Brišar

Sound designer
Silvo Zupančič

Make-up artist
Barbara Pavlin

Translator
Jakob J. Kenda

Director
Marko Mlačnik

Set and costume designer
Barbara Kapelj Osredkar

Stage manager
Janez Pavlovčič



  
     

Shows

Mon
28. 05. 2012

at 21.00