Volume 23, Number 6 · April 15, 1976
Nijinsky and 'Le Sacre'
By Robert Craft
Nijinsky Dancing
by Lincoln Kirstein
Knopf, 175 pp., $35.00
Diaghilev Observed by Critics in England and the United States, 1911-1929
by Nesta Macdonald
Dance Horizons, 400 pp., $37.50
At first glance, Nijinsky Dancing would seem to belong in a Godiva chocolate shop; but to dismiss it because of this would be to overlook the gold beneath the glitter of the cover. Though primarily a photograph album, which may explain the confectionary wrapping, the text is substantial and should engage every balletomane. In addition to showing Nijinsky dancing, it reopens the controversial subject of Nijinsky choreographing. As noted in Anna Kisselgoff's New York Times review (despite the false parallelism):
Review, 4431 words
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