Os Faunos de Nijinsky: As (Re) Interpretações de L’Après-Midi D’um Faune

Authors

  • Amanda Bortoluzzi Universidade de Brasília

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26512/emtempos.v1i34.28163

Keywords:

Faune. Ballets Russes. Vaslav Nijinsky.

Abstract

With  music  by  Claude  Debussy,  design  by  Liev  Bakst  and  choreography  by Vaslav Nijinsky, L'Après-midi d'un Faunedebuted, with great controversy, on the stage of  the Théâtre  du  Châtelet,  in  Paris,  on  May  29,  1912.  Telling  the  story  of  a  Faun  who meets  with  a  group  of  nymphs  through  marked  movements  and  an  unconventional base  position  for  classical  ballet  at  the  time,  the  first  choreography  of  the  acclaimed "dance god" was immersed in thecontroversies that would lead to the spectacle, and the  character  of  the  Faun,  to  be  seen  as synonymous of  the  name  Vaslav Nijinsky.  As the  only  choreography  of  the  Russian  dancer  to  survive  the  nearly  seventy  years between  its debut  and  the  reconstruction  made  in  the  1980s, L'Après-midi  d'un  Faunelived   in   memory.   This   work   proposes   to   reflect   if   this   memory   is   about   the choreography itself or the choreographer.

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Published

2019-11-10

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How to Cite

Os Faunos de Nijinsky: As (Re) Interpretações de L’Après-Midi D’um Faune. Em Tempo de Histórias, [S. l.], v. 1, n. 34, p. 19–38, 2019. DOI: 10.26512/emtempos.v1i34.28163. Disponível em: https://periodicostestes.bce.unb.br/index.php/emtempos/article/view/28163. Acesso em: 3 mar. 2025.