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Choreographie: Solo de Nijinski (fragment)
02:28
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With this CD I tried to bring the open crossroad that Nijinski
created, to life again in our time. The last piece, Solo de Nijinski, portrays
this human personality of the arts in his dance, in his silence of thoughts,
which eventually resulted in total silence.
Vaclav Nijinski (1898 – 1950) has been a fascinating
artist, as a choreographer, dancer and also as a person. He was described as a
‘dancing animal’. He worked almost completely without talking on the philosophy
of his art, unlike Picasso or Strawinsky with whom he was often compared.
Nijinski coincided as a person with his art, in silence of thoughts:
Personal and artistic thoughts were absorbed in the
autocratic act of creation. The talking disappeared. It became forgetting in
order to create. The act of the non-consciousness. This offers an insight in
the fascinating paradox of Nijinski: choreographing and dancing, simultaneously
on an intimate and on a monumental scale.
Nijnski built a crossroad of a highly personal and
artistic character in a changing period. He created an open crossroad. An
artistic paradox far removed from the theories of periods, open to all times.
The crossroad is one of serene autocracy of creation: of continuous and fluid
contact with emotion in the action of the creation.
Non verbal and fully intuitive. Here, creation becomes
an act of integrity. Of unity in mind and body, of a continuous flow of
emotion. We meet here one of the rare occasions where individual intimacy is
paired to powerful emotional communication.
Here we stumble upon one of the principles of archaic
classical art:
Emotion is evoked through resonance with a creation
expressing the unity in mind and body. A creation which expresses serene
savageness: in the sense of the natural, complete human being. Consistent, not
through system but through its very
nature. Throught its ‘intelligent body’.
It is interesting that Nijinski wrote in his diary,
his last words to the outside world – before he collapsed for ever into his
inner world of schizophrenia- that human creation, human being can be natural.
Can be as nature itself ... can be as... God.
In the context of the above mentioned it sheds light
upon extraordinary experiences of this gifted personality of the arts.
Barend Schipper. [page down]
