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Vaslav Nijinsky

1889 - 1950

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Vaslav or Vatslav Nijinsky (12 March 1889/1890 – 8 April 1950) was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of Polish ancestry. He is regarded as the greatest male dancer of the early 20th century. He is often associated with the Ballets Russes and its impresario Sergei Diaghilev, for which he choreographed such influential ballets as L'après-midi d'un faune (1912), Le Sacre du Printemps (1913), Jeux (1913), and Till Eulenspiegel (1916). He was celebrated for his virtuosity and for the depth and intensity of his characterizations. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vaslav Nijinsky is the 6th most popular dancer, the 33rd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 30th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Dancer.

Vaslav Nijinsky was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer. He is most famous for his performance in the ballet "The Rite of Spring" by Igor Stravinsky.

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Among DANCERS

Among dancers, Vaslav Nijinsky ranks 6 out of 116. Before him are Mata Hari, Isadora Duncan, Rudolf Nureyev, Anna Pavlova, and Josephine Baker. After him are Marie Taglioni, Maurice Béjart, Pina Bausch, Marius Petipa, Bobby Farrell, and Mikhail Baryshnikov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Vaslav Nijinsky ranks 14. Before him are Jawaharlal Nehru, Edwin Hubble, Philip Noel-Baker, Paul Karrer, Ante Pavelić, and Anna Akhmatova. After him are Arnold J. Toynbee, Igor Sikorsky, Thomas Midgley Jr., Manuel II of Portugal, Claude Rains, and Gabriela Mistral. Among people deceased in 1950, Vaslav Nijinsky ranks 8. Before him are Vallabhbhai Patel, George Bernard Shaw, Gustaf V of Sweden, Johannes V. Jensen, Joseph Schumpeter, and Norman Haworth. After him are Albert Lebrun, Léon Blum, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Heinrich Mann, Marcel Mauss, and Karl Renner.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Vaslav Nijinsky ranks 33 out of 1,365. Before him are Stanisław Leszczyński (1677), Anna Akhmatova (1889), Yulia Tymoshenko (1960), Leonid Kravchuk (1934), Kliment Voroshilov (1881), and Nestor Makhno (1888). After him are Anne of Kiev (1025), Sviatoslav I of Kiev (942), Petro Poroshenko (1965), Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916), Grigory Zinoviev (1883), and Ludwig von Mises (1881).

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Among DANCERS In Ukraine

Among dancers born in Ukraine, Vaslav Nijinsky ranks 1. After him are Serge Lifar (1904), Olga Khokhlova (1891), Natalia Dudinskaya (1912), Svetlana Zakharova (1979), Sergei Polunin (1989), and Masha Dashkina Maddux (1986).

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