Nijinsky’s Controversial L’Après-midi d’un Faune
Vaslav Nijinsky’s stark and erotic choreography for the ballet L’Après-midi d’un Faune (The Afternoon of a Faun) was criticized by the Parisian press as obscene. (L’Après-midi d’un Faune: music by Claude Debussy; sets and costumes by Léon Bakst; choreography by Nijinsky; premier on May 29, 1912, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris).
Vaslav Nijinsky’s stark and erotic choreography for the ballet <em>L’Après-midi d’un Faune</em> (The Afternoon of a Faun) was criticized by the Parisian press as obscene. (<em>L’Après-midi d’un Faune</em>: music by Claude Debussy; sets and costumes by Léon Bakst; choreography by Nijinsky; premier on May 29, 1912, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris).