Alexandre Benois. Drawing of Nijinsky in costume for Le Pavillon d'Armide. Purchased with funds of the Committee for the Dance Division. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

For further reading on Vaslav Nijinsky, the Curator recommends the following books:

The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky edited by Joan Acocella, translated by Kyril FitzLyon, New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1999
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Ballet and Modern Dance by Susan Au, London: Thames and Hudson, 2002
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Nijinsky by Richard Buckle, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971
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Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes by Lynn Garafola, New York: Oxford University Press, 1989
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Time and the Dancing Image by Deborah Jowitt, New York: Wm. Morrow & Co., 1988
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Theatre Street by Tamara Karsavina, London: Heinemann, 1930
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Movement and Metaphor by Lincoln Kirstein, New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970
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Nijinsky Dancing by Lincoln Kirstein, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975
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Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes by Boris Kochno, New York: Harper and Row, 1970
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Nijinsky by Vera Krasovskaia, New York: Schirmer Books, 1979
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Diaghilev Observed by Critics in England and the United States, 1911 – 1929 by Nesta MacDonald, New York: Dance Horizons, 1975
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Early Memoirs by Bronislava Nijinska, New York: Holt, Rinehart &Winston, 1981
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The Art of Ballets Russes by Alexander Schouvaloff, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
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These and other books, films and videotapes on Nijinsky can be found in the Jerome Robbins Dance Division and the Circulating Collections, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center.

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