The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun (1983) Tomás Matonoha Colleague Polski film (2012) Iveta Dusková Ranger's wife Restore Point (2023) Jarmila Cervásková Granny The Wild Bees (2001) Stefan Boros Actor The Wild Bees (2001) Marie Borosová Actress The Wild Bees (2001) Ji...
It was the summer of 1967. I had left the security of family, cornfields, and billowing New Jersey skies to seek my fortune in New York. I met Robert, a smiling, barefoot kid as misfit as myself. That fall, we got a place on Hall Street in Brooklyn, across from Pratt Institute, w...
The balletL’Après-midi d’un faune(The Afternoon of a Faun)was choreographed byVaslav Nijinskyfor the Ballets Russes and first performed in the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on 29 May 1912. On the opening night the ballet was met with a mixture of applause and booing, and again it...
Schwabe is best known for his masterpiece “The Death of the Grave-Digger” (1895), depicting an angel of death with long green scythe-like wings who comes to claim the life of an old man who is digging a grave in a snowy cemetery. Death is portrayed as a beautiful woman (his own ...
Nijinsky also showed his merit as a choreographer by introducing expressionist motifs into his ballets The Afternoon of a Faun, based on music by C. Debussy (1912), and The Rite of Spring by I. F. Stravinsky (1913). The outstanding Russian ballerina A. P. Pavlova expressed the ideas of...
Eau des Merveilles was created for Hermès by perfumers Nathalie Feisthauer (Gardénia Pétale and Putain des Palaces) and Ralf Schweiger (Fils de Dieu, The Afternoon of a Faun and Cédrat Enivrant) in 2004 as a topsy-turvy perfume that displays no top, middle and base notes, instead opting...
'But now you begin to see the object of my investigations into the geometry of Four Dimensions.Long ago I had a vague inkling of a machine—'To travel through Time!' exclaimed the Very Young Man.'That shall travel indifferently in any direction of Space and Time, as the driver determines...
Chapter 1, “Afternoon With A Faun”begins the journey of Ogilvie into the mysteries of teh natural world, when he sees a faun dancing about a tree. As any “rational” man would do he dismisses this as fancy, yet the visage persists and he relinquishes disbelief as we are also reminded...
He scanned the glistening waters through his oversized sunglasses, the far-seeing immortality of sunset and solitude on his faun-face. His hair bleached cinnamon every summer. He had made it to adulthood with the sort of purity it would be tragic to crush; Nan had the same sort of ...
Evoking The Afternoon of A Faun “Nijinsky has never been so remarkable as in his latest role. No more jumps – nothing but half-conscious animal gestures and poses. He lies down, leans on his elbow, walks with bent knees, draws himself up, advancing and retreating, some-times slowly, so...