Because there is no film footage of him dancing. This was created from stills, I hope that you have some appreciation for the undertaking this poster invested.
As a child I was fascinated by ballet and Nijinsky. Utterly thrilling to see see actual footage of him, all these years later. So ahead of his time. Can't thank you enough.
The very definition of a labor of love. I cannot imagine the work that went into gathering the stills needed to create this remarkable piece, and then bringing them to life as you have. Thank you for this gift.
I never thought I'd see Nijinsky dance, seen plenty of pictures but this is wonderful. Yes it is dis-jointed and choppy but still, it's unbelievable, to think this was danced over 100 years ago and here we are today being able to see this wonderful dancer. Thank you for putting this together, it is truly amazing to see this.
@@FitnessOver60 I think so too, but nevertheless gives laypeople a hint of how "primitivism" affected Western art during that period...and how entrenched a group of amazing artists Diagilev assembled to take to Paris and stayed...
It is like a dream seeing Nijinsky in these steps! Whether fabricated or not, what a treat! The most appreciated dancer ever and not one piece of film exists. Thank you, Christian Comte, for this extraordinary gift.
Knew his choreography was considered "difficult" at the time, and he had trouble getting the classically trained dancers to execute it, but even these few clips shown here prove that he was an innovator, and way ahead of his time, imo. Thank you so much for yr film. As a life time admirer, I never thought I'd see anything like this.
I am so obsessed with Vaslav Nijinsky, this is so overwhelming, make up, moves, esthetics, such a genius, so ahead his time , I ve been into Tribal for a while and now I see how much of his legacy there is in our scene.
I'm re-reading all my books on Nijinsky at the moment - the one by his wife, published 1933, I've had since 1963! I didn't think there was any film of Nijinsky dancing, never thought I would see this! :)
I’ve read about him but here he is. Just the way Stravinsky’s biographers describe him. So unexpected. This was when photography involved exploding flashes to create one still picture. They were still doing that in the 1920s. THANKS!
Merci de nous avoir rendues et animées ces fantastiques images d'archives!! Toute l'émotion et l'étrangeté y sont!! Pour une fan de Nijinski, voir "L'après-midi-d'un faune" enfin, en 2014 ,est purement EXTRAORDINAIRE!!!!!Bravo encore à vous!
Вот было бы здорово умело и деликатно, при помощи самых современных технологий отреставрировать эти старинные записи. Это был бы шикарный подарок почитателям балета. Я на это надеюсь, что время это придёт.
Fascinating, when we see the choreography and the costume at 8:08 we almost feel that Bowie was inspired by Ninjinski for the Ashes to Ashes video, and at 8:41 just the incredible impression of seeing a Klimt painting come to life before your eyes, it's extraordinary, genius !!! Thank you for this work and this sharing, we appreciate it
I have learn something new today due to a Dancing performance in TH-cam whom were giving tribute to this incredible Dancer, it appears his life was interesting but 😢 Thanks for this incredible footage
Te agradezco inmensamente que hayas compartido estos pequeños fragmentos. En lo particular, me hubiera gustado vivir en aquella época sola para apreciar a artistas como lo fue él, me hubiera gustado tanto haberlo visto en vivo. Que Dios te bendiga
Mi madre murió en agosto pasado y en su canal de TH-cam encontré mucho material y suscripciones por ejemplo a este y otros videos favoritos del también bailarín Nureyev, ahora estoy conociendo y admirando el arte al que mi mamá al parecer tanto admiraba y yo no lo sabía. Así que seguro mi madre pensaría como tu, le hubiese encantado estoy segura poder admirar en vivo este arte. Gracias
It would have been quite easy to produce a "reconstruction" with much better quality - but what would have been gained? I think the deliberately fragmentary and primitive nature of this video expresses exactly the great sadness of the fact that there's no film of the man himself. In this way it becomes a personal expression of loss. Having seen the marvellous exhibition on Diaghilev at the V&A a while ago, I really value this film. The exhibition was slightly marred, in my opinion, by the addition of some pretty dire modern "hommages". This film, in their place, would have made a perfect, poignant ending to the show. Thanks for all the work that clearly went into it, and thanks for sharing it.
I confirmed, it is indeed a real film of Rudolf Nureyev and Vaslav Nijinsky in one scene. The great surprising fact here is that the footage is about 9 minutes long, which is huge considering that his manager didn't want him to get filmed. He is god like in the footage, moving with such divine grace, so lithely! I highly recommend you check that footage out.
exactly there is something so haunting and beautiful about fragmented way these photos have been animated and brought to life. it's like they flicker, come alive for only a second than fade away, a memory of distant time. I love it.
Excelente material de archivo. No había visto ninguna film de este extraordinario artista que abrió el camino al bailarín en el ballet. Traté de advertir alguno de sus históricos saltos en El espectro y otro ballet. Pero lo más impresionante es su expresividad y la comprensión de su repertorio contemporáneo. Gracias por compartir
It pains me to watch these clips with what I have learned about this artist. Just to pursue what he was born and loved to do, he had to endure being pursued by a pervert. No wonder his career lasted a short 10 years and than late in life was in a mental institution. What the human spirit will endure for art.
I don't think this is actual film of live dancing. It think it is a very skillful editting of stills with other lighting effects. I've seen this kind of stuff before.
Diáguilev tenía razón cuando se oponía a que fuera filmado, lamentablemente la tecnología no estaba desarrollada como para apreciar en toda su magnitud la técnica y la belleza de los movimientos de este ser único...
Very, very moving to see this, abt an artist who has fascinated me since I was a youngster. Congratulations on an excellent reconstruction, it must have been a big undertaking.
Apparently, Nijinsky forbade any filming of him performing. What a pity. You may see the second best with Nureev, who danced "à l'identique" the wonderful "après midi d'un faune" : th-cam.com/video/et999oeQcu8/w-d-xo.html
This is a digital reconstruction made with pictures, cause stupid Diaghilev, Nijinsky's lover and leader of Ballets Russes wouldn't allow filming because he felt that the quality of film at the time could never capture the artistry of his dancers. So pictures is all we have.
@@elizabethpengson8244 both Diaghilev and Nijinsky forbade any filming of him dancing, so these are photos morphed together. It's such a shame that we don't have any real video, but it's still an emotion to watch him performing. His genius, sense of grace and creative "daimon" are still inspiring
I like that it gives dates and clips from different ballets but I wanted to see ninjinskys technique it kept cutting off to black and going out of focus and not really showing a long enough clip of his dancing this video seemed more focused on a stylized historical video but I found it dizzying.
Unfortunately this is not actual movie clips of Nijinsky. He forbade any filming of him performing his ballets. This is obviously a combination of photos that are morphed together. This video detracts from the original artistic integrity of Nijinsky's works.
@@ciudadseisgrados8610 En todo caso es una fantasmagórica manipulación de fotogramas suyos con música siniestra. If you want to see Nijinsky's work, lee su diario, as it've been said, nunca se dejó grabar en vídeo. Un saludo a todos
Maestro Yoda. As far as I know, it is Dyagilev forbade to remove. What the dancer who is completely subordinated to him can forbid! In this video there are some moments of shooting, privately.
as he was wise...if you look at the bodies at Bolshoi and Kirov, the Paris Opera, no longer the Royal, and compared these dancing wizards to Pavlova, you'd shocked how much better bodies are for dancing these days -- diets and evolution even within 100 years. What these legendary figures gave to the audience was so new so unfamiliar that it made magic for the public the way we are too jaded to appreciate, except in some cultures where they had never seen much, where what goes on stage might still be magical. When we performed in some small places in Alaska, the young man at the hotel lobby told us when we returned that he "had never seen anything so beautiful in his life," and that from a young man surrounded by truly magical natural surroundings! Art is magical to people who might be somewhat dulled by the ordinariness of life.
ОПИСАНИЕ ПОД ВИДЕО НА РУССКОМ: несколько танцевальных па из Нижинского в 15 балетах. - Король Кандавле 1906 г. - Синий бог 1912 - Золотая птица 1910 г. - Павильон Армиде 1909 г. - Шахерезада 1910 - Восточные 1910 - Карнавал 1910 г. - Призрак розы 1911 - Петрушка 1911 г. - Синий бог 1912 - Полдень фавна 1912 - Игры 1913 г. - Весна священная 1913 - Фавн 1916 - Тиль Уленшпигель 1916 Цифровые реконструкции Кристиана Конта
This is brilliantly done, yet very, very odd. If I was making a German Expressionist homage for a 1990's rock video, I'd SO use these clips. Exquisite, yet I feel almost frightened watching them. Is it the uncanny-valley I've heard about?
Awful, awful, awful. The blinking pictures just ruin my eyes, this looks more like an epilepsy testing clip than a video meant for people to watch. Sometimes loads of work just end up looking like a piece of crap
Because there is no film footage of him dancing. This was created from stills, I hope that you have some appreciation for the undertaking this poster invested.
Those are videos of some sort aren't they?
Amazing
As a child I was fascinated by ballet and Nijinsky. Utterly thrilling to see see actual footage of him, all these years later. So ahead of his time. Can't thank you enough.
Спасибо за возможность увидеть уникальные кадры с Нижинским из балетов"Русских сезонов"и даже самого Дягилева!
The very definition of a labor of love. I cannot imagine the work that went into gathering the stills needed to create this remarkable piece, and then bringing them to life as you have. Thank you for this gift.
I never thought I'd see Nijinsky dance, seen plenty of pictures but this is wonderful. Yes it is dis-jointed and choppy but still, it's unbelievable, to think this was danced over 100 years ago and here we are today being able to see this wonderful dancer. Thank you for putting this together, it is truly amazing to see this.
It's not actual film footage, just pictures that are morphed together.
@@FitnessOver60 I think so too, but nevertheless gives laypeople a hint of how "primitivism" affected Western art during that period...and how entrenched a group of amazing artists Diagilev assembled to take to Paris and stayed...
@@FitnessOver60Perhaps you don't really know about Nijinsky, the great dancer!
Thanks mam, well said!
Agree
i have goosebumps right now…. he was just such a gem
It is like a dream seeing Nijinsky in these steps! Whether fabricated or not, what a treat! The most appreciated dancer ever and not one piece of film exists. Thank you, Christian Comte, for this extraordinary gift.
Le génie à l’état pur…peut parfois se combiner à « la folie ».
Nijinsky était une étoile filante 💫 qui a magnifié la danse classique 🇫🇷🇮🇪🇺🇸🌿🩵🩵🩵
Knew his choreography was considered "difficult" at the time, and he had trouble getting the classically trained dancers to execute it, but even these few clips shown here prove that he was an innovator, and way ahead of his time, imo. Thank you so much for yr film. As a life time admirer, I never thought I'd see anything like this.
I agree..stunning..P Broken puppet face is like a poor bear in a bile farm - falling of hope
I am so obsessed with Vaslav Nijinsky, this is so overwhelming, make up, moves, esthetics, such a genius, so ahead his time , I ve been into Tribal for a while and now I see how much of his legacy there is in our scene.
Silvia Adriana, you should read his autobiography. So poetic, lost in time and space and yet so full of his Art
Anche io sono ossessionata da lui ...
Yes
I'm re-reading all my books on Nijinsky at the moment - the one by his wife, published 1933, I've had since 1963! I didn't think there was any film of Nijinsky dancing, never thought I would see this! :)
This collage is a work of art
I’ve read about him but here he is. Just the way Stravinsky’s biographers describe him. So unexpected. This was when photography involved exploding flashes to create one still picture. They were still doing that in the 1920s. THANKS!
Merci de nous avoir rendues et animées ces fantastiques images d'archives!!
Toute l'émotion et l'étrangeté y sont!! Pour une fan de Nijinski, voir "L'après-midi-d'un faune" enfin, en 2014 ,est purement EXTRAORDINAIRE!!!!!Bravo encore à vous!
That gesture with the hands is take n from the wall paintings in Crete
Вот было бы здорово умело и деликатно, при помощи самых современных технологий отреставрировать эти старинные записи. Это был бы шикарный подарок почитателям балета. Я на это надеюсь, что время это придёт.
Like a broken sleep with dreams of never quite reaching the object of desire.
The "wanting" is so integral to Romantic art, the urge to search beyond what is there...
Yes! I felt a keening to be there, and that the film almost, but not quite brought our lives and times to an overlap. Amazing!
I'm absolutely amazed to be watching this. I never would have imagined I could ever actually see early footage of him dancing. Extraordinary.
Восхищена до слёз. Почему-то даже дышать перестаю, когда вижу эти прекрасные кадры. Огромное спасибо, что сберегли 💖
C’est magique, irréel et pourtant OUI, cet être divin a existé…. Merci mille fois pour ces magnifiques moments de partage 🙏🌿🩵🩵🩵
Fascinating, when we see the choreography and the costume at 8:08 we almost feel that Bowie was inspired by Ninjinski for the Ashes to Ashes video, and at 8:41 just the incredible impression of seeing a Klimt painting come to life before your eyes, it's extraordinary, genius !!! Thank you for this work and this sharing, we appreciate it
the jump at 5:15 incredible!!
Osho was right he's the best dance ever
I was wondering if im.only one brought in here by osho :)
Me too also came here by osho
Osho only...
me too by Osho🙏❤️😀
Luis Eduardo me too :)
I have learn something new today due to a Dancing performance in TH-cam whom were giving tribute to this incredible Dancer, it appears his life was interesting but 😢
Thanks for this incredible footage
Уникальный Нижинский... Восхитителен!
This is a labour of love and a work of art in itself Christian, thank you for creating it.
It's not actual film footage, just pictures that are morphed together.
@@FitnessOver60 por eso se ve tan rígido!
I can't imagine how limb it took, not only to find these but to put them all together! Wow, this is just so amazing
Te agradezco inmensamente que hayas compartido estos pequeños fragmentos. En lo particular, me hubiera gustado vivir en aquella época sola para apreciar a artistas como lo fue él, me hubiera gustado tanto haberlo visto en vivo. Que Dios te bendiga
Mi madre murió en agosto pasado y en su canal de TH-cam encontré mucho material y suscripciones por ejemplo a este y otros videos favoritos del también bailarín Nureyev, ahora estoy conociendo y admirando el arte al que mi mamá al parecer tanto admiraba y yo no lo sabía. Así que seguro mi madre pensaría como tu, le hubiese encantado estoy segura poder admirar en vivo este arte. Gracias
It would have been quite easy to produce a "reconstruction" with much better quality - but what would have been gained? I think the deliberately fragmentary and primitive nature of this video expresses exactly the great sadness of the fact that there's no film of the man himself. In this way it becomes a personal expression of loss. Having seen the marvellous exhibition on Diaghilev at the V&A a while ago, I really value this film. The exhibition was slightly marred, in my opinion, by the addition of some pretty dire modern "hommages". This film, in their place, would have made a perfect, poignant ending to the show. Thanks for all the work that clearly went into it, and thanks for sharing it.
There is one footage of Nijinsky I believe:
th-cam.com/video/1u_CecuN0QA/w-d-xo.html
I confirmed, it is indeed a real film of Rudolf Nureyev and Vaslav Nijinsky
in one scene. The great surprising fact here is that the footage is about 9 minutes long, which is huge considering that his manager didn't want him to get filmed. He is god like in the footage, moving with such divine grace, so lithely! I highly recommend you check that footage out.
Well said. So much work was involved. Thank you.
@@vibhavperi983 the dancer is Nureyev, not Nijinsky
exactly there is something so haunting and beautiful about fragmented way these photos have been animated and brought to life. it's like they flicker, come alive for only a second than fade away, a memory of distant time. I love it.
Excelente material de archivo. No había visto ninguna film de este extraordinario artista que abrió el camino al bailarín en el ballet. Traté de advertir alguno de sus históricos saltos en El espectro y otro ballet. Pero lo más impresionante es su expresividad y la comprensión de su repertorio contemporáneo. Gracias por compartir
This fabulous. Thanks so much for splicing together the clips and uploading it. Thanks very much.
This is fragmentary, but it is a very valuable video that you can know the dancing of Nijinsky’s. Thanks for the update. amazing
I don’t care what it is. It’s magic to see him.
It pains me to watch these clips with what I have learned about this artist. Just to pursue what he was born and loved to do, he had to endure being pursued by a pervert. No wonder his career lasted a short 10 years and than late in life was in a mental institution. What the human spirit will endure for art.
A man who did not know gravity was real
Иногда мне кажется ,что некоторые кадры ---это компьютеризированные фотографии .
Это все цифровое воспроизведение
Конечно он опередил свое время.
This is very neat. I wish there were actual footage of him to see but this is neat too. I agree with a previous poster that said it is haunting.
this is one of the creepiest videos on youtube
Collin Wilsonの”アウトサイダー”読んで知ったNijinskyをこうして２１世紀になって映像で見ることが出来るなんて！実に１５のシーンが収められている！カラーマスタリングのダフニストクロエもあるけど、これがTH-camの中での決定版では？ところで、身内に有名なダンサーがいる。世界的なダンサーに娘を嫁がせるってどんな気がするのだろう？自分は、娘も息子も持つ事無く終わってしまったけど・・・。
A nice little slice of ballet history.
ニジンスキーの動画があったなんて！
撮影してくれた方、まとめてあげてくださった方、本当にありがとうございます
すごい貴重な映像です。ありがとう、感謝します。
i think John Barnes is correct. Joan Acocella implies the same thing in her biography of Nijinsky, pub. ca. 1998. You can email me.
Un tres tres grand merci, je ne croyais pas qu'il existe encore quelques maigres qui'ils soient des films ou Nijinski dansaient.
Quel danseur avec ses sauts interminables il me revient le beau souvenir de gorge donn
I don't think this is actual film of live dancing. It think it is a very skillful editting of stills with other lighting effects. I've seen this kind of stuff before.
Je suis la seule à trouver le début flippant nan
Великий человек, талантливый ,но судьба была не простая
Diáguilev tenía razón cuando se oponía a que fuera filmado, lamentablemente la tecnología no estaba desarrollada como para apreciar en toda su magnitud la técnica y la belleza de los movimientos de este ser único...
Fascinating, beautiful, other-worldly, and almost incomprehensible - at least for a cultural lout like me.
Such a great artist ! I am so grateful I can see this video's of him. Really thanks ! I hope too it wil be possible a restauration of this video's.
Very, very moving to see this, abt an artist who has fascinated me since I was a youngster. Congratulations on an excellent reconstruction, it must have been a big undertaking.
So in other words; I will never get to see Vaslav Nijinsky dance :(. Nevertheless I do like the strangeness of this clip ( & the music of course.)
A fascinante imperfeição da imagem consegue captar (quiça reforçar)
a percepção deste perfeito ET.
What a joy to watch, Thank you for producing and sharing this.
This is beautiful I have just quoted Nijinsky in a wrestling promo!
Man, ain't it a shame all the film of Nijinsky is damaged. I have a hope one day that a lost film will surface that does justice to his artistry.
Apparently, Nijinsky forbade any filming of him performing. What a pity. You may see the second best with Nureev, who danced "à l'identique" the wonderful "après midi d'un faune" : th-cam.com/video/et999oeQcu8/w-d-xo.html
Extraordinary! Thank you so much, Christian.
Une forte impression de rêve ....
Hauntingly beautiful ! You enhanced these rare photos of Vaslav just enough. Thank you, you have added to the power and mystery of his legacy.
Beautifully done! (applause) bravo!
It’s amazing what technology can do! Thank you!
Avec la citation à la fin!Génial!!..
What a brilliant idea! Magical and haunting. Thank you.
Thank you for this wonderful work.
Thanks for compiling your clips, Christian. We know they aren't real - but so what? It is marvelous. I hope you get a lot of "likes".
I think Nijinsky actually anticipated breakdancing. And from the looks of it he could levitate !
This is a digital reconstruction made with pictures, cause stupid Diaghilev, Nijinsky's lover and leader of Ballets Russes wouldn't allow filming because he felt that the quality of film at the time could never capture the artistry of his dancers. So pictures is all we have.
Simplemente un genio... Grandes los rusos
He was Polish - Wacław Niżyński.
jews ..
Seria maravilloso ver una puesta en escena de vaslav!!!!
Much time is devoted to Le Sacre du printemps 1913 (The Rite of Spring) but Nijinsky did not dance in that ballet, though he choreographed it.
Is it just me or it looks like an horror movie?
yeh ive gone for 1040p HD ultra vision 3D effect as well with surround sound
It is just you
thats modernism for ya
those were his paintings when he was going mad
@@elizabethpengson8244 both Diaghilev and Nijinsky forbade any filming of him dancing, so these are photos morphed together. It's such a shame that we don't have any real video, but it's still an emotion to watch him performing. His genius, sense of grace and creative "daimon" are still inspiring
The way these reconstructions flow, either it is a very artificial result, or else Nijinsky & Co. anticipated pop-n-lock by 70 years.
+marbanak oh my god that's what i thought
По отрывистым кадрам невозможно польностью насладиться творчеством Нежинского.
so bitter sweet.. it took me this long to s ee him on film.. wish it was more..
It is not visibly but I still enjoy this prodigy of classic dance. 🙏
I believe at 5:33 it shows Nijinsky a doin' the Rhumba
on the west coast of Treasure Island.
Thank you for sharing.
Truly magical
Чего-то жутко стало...
Мне тоже не по себе от этих кадров
This collage is super DUPER CREEPY.....BRAVO!
Thank you for this! Pre-technology reaches into our world with the inspiration of Nijinsky!
wow! this is awesome!!
Потрясающе! Он двигается как на шарнирах!
relax music 2020!!
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It's a wondwerful work, where did you find these photos?
Thank you so much for this chef d'ouvre de la cinematography. Muito obrigada, mesmo.
Should be Ninja-sky
I like that it gives dates and clips from different ballets but I wanted to see ninjinskys technique it kept cutting off to black and going out of focus and not really showing a long enough clip of his dancing this video seemed more focused on a stylized historical video but I found it dizzying.
This super ! Thanks for sharing ;)
Unfortunately this is not actual movie clips of Nijinsky. He forbade any filming of him performing his ballets. This is obviously a combination of photos that are morphed together. This video detracts from the original artistic integrity of Nijinsky's works.
En todo caso es un trabajo minucioso que nos permite ver algo del trabajo de este gran bailarín.
@@ciudadseisgrados8610 En todo caso es una fantasmagórica manipulación de fotogramas suyos con música siniestra. If you want to see Nijinsky's work, lee su diario, as it've been said, nunca se dejó grabar en vídeo.
Un saludo a todos
Maestro Yoda. As far as I know, it is Dyagilev forbade to remove. What the dancer who is completely subordinated to him can forbid! In this video there are some moments of shooting, privately.
as he was wise...if you look at the bodies at Bolshoi and Kirov, the Paris Opera, no longer the Royal, and compared these dancing wizards to Pavlova, you'd shocked how much better bodies are for dancing these days -- diets and evolution even within 100 years. What these legendary figures gave to the audience was so new so unfamiliar that it made magic for the public the way we are too jaded to appreciate, except in some cultures where they had never seen much, where what goes on stage might still be magical. When we performed in some small places in Alaska, the young man at the hotel lobby told us when we returned that he "had never seen anything so beautiful in his life," and that from a young man surrounded by truly magical natural surroundings! Art is magical to people who might be somewhat dulled by the ordinariness of life.
Alguien sabe porque prohibio que filmaran sus ballets.?!
It is amazing there is any footage at all!
I know this is art and I respect it but this video is truly what my nightmares are made of.
Конечно, коамоты танца Нижинского здесь не увидишь, слишком плохи записи
ОПИСАНИЕ ПОД ВИДЕО НА РУССКОМ: несколько танцевальных па из Нижинского в 15 балетах.
- Король Кандавле 1906 г.
- Синий бог 1912
- Золотая птица 1910 г.
- Павильон Армиде 1909 г.
- Шахерезада 1910
- Восточные 1910
- Карнавал 1910 г.
- Призрак розы 1911
- Петрушка 1911 г.
- Синий бог 1912
- Полдень фавна 1912
- Игры 1913 г.
- Весна священная 1913
- Фавн 1916
- Тиль Уленшпигель 1916
Цифровые реконструкции Кристиана Конта
An important documentation. Now if only we could discover Nijinsky's notations.
Toca e emociona a alma.
Looks like the OG of poppin' and locking
Merci❤❤❤❤❤
Excelente trabajo, muy minucioso!
This is brilliantly done, yet very, very odd. If I was making a German Expressionist homage for a 1990's rock video, I'd SO use these clips. Exquisite, yet I feel almost frightened watching them. Is it the uncanny-valley I've heard about?
Awful, awful, awful. The blinking pictures just ruin my eyes, this looks more like an epilepsy testing clip than a video meant for people to watch. Sometimes loads of work just end up looking like a piece of crap
+Paul Sahara I agree,better to have left well alone.They do not have any proper record of his Dancing and from this,we learn nothing.
Merci 🙏