Photo © Rosellina Garbo

Highlights

Created in 2016, Nijinski is an award-winning show that has toured the world and is signed by German choreographer Marco Goecke, artist in residence in prestigious European companies such as the Gauthier Dance/Theaterhaus in Stuttgart, the Nederland Dans Theater in The Hague and director of the Staatsballett of Hanover. “As a choreographer – says Marco Goecke – Nijinsky has always looked for new ways of expression … It was clear to me from the beginning that I wanted to create an emotional choreography, which drew inspiration from Nijinsky's character, but which absolutely had to go beyond the narrow frame of the biography”.
Goecke's choreography is characterized by very rapid, minute and nervous movements, hands that vibrate, arms that swirl in the air, gestures that could recall sequences from silent cinema and that evoke many of the ballets that made Nijinski and the Balletts Russes famous: from Petrushka to L’après– midi d’un faune, from Le specter de la rose to Le sacre du printemps.But they also give us the entire progression of the illness into which Nijinski gradually sank, until he was lost, consumed by schizophrenic delirium.