A ballet god falls from grace — and this musical dares you to catch him.
A musical depicting legendary gifted ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky through half of his lifetime. Romola is his wife and the love of his life; Diaghilev, the leader of the Russian ballet company "Ballets Russes", is antagonistic toward him. Set in the beginning of the 20th century in Paris — the era known as les années folles ("the roaring twenties") — a dramatic portrayal of the glory and ruin brought about by one man's overabundance of beauty and talent.
Production
Takarazuka grandeur: all-female cast, maximalist sets, zero subtlety.
Acting
Seina Sagiri's Nijinsky — fragile, feral, androgynous perfection.
Costume
Les années folles glamour that would make Diaghilev weep with want.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Takarazuka Revue's 'otokoyaku' (male-role actresses) invert gendered power — making Nijinsky's androgyny literally embodied by female performers.
The real Nijinsky's unperformed 'Rite of Spring' choreography was lost; this musical stages its own beautiful fiction of what madness preserved.
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