Vaslav Nijinsky was one of the most compelling figures of an explosion in the arts that took place at the beginning of the 20th century. Here are ten interesting facts about Nijinsky’s life and his works, by way of an introduction to an remarkable dance universe.

'He walked like a tiger. Instead of transferring the inactive burden from one position to another, he had some elastic relationship with weight, like an eagle does with air...' Paul Claudel was not the only one at the beginning of the 20th century to speak in superlatives about the greatest dancer of the period, Vaslav Nijinsky.