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Perhaps the most famous of all the winners during the race's 225-year history has been Nijinsky.
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The Reef could win on soft and hard ground, which Dancing Brave, Brigadier Gerard or Nijinsky did not prove.
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There, she was taught by the choreographer Bronislava Nijinska, the sister of the legendary dancer Nijinsky, and learned ballet in the style of the Russian school.
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In my view the greatest flat racehorses in the British Isles in the last 100 years were Mill Reef, Brigadier Gerard, Nijinsky, Dancing Brave and Shergar.
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The movements Nijinsky devised for the three dancers, based on jagged, sinewy gestures drawn from the game of tennis, outraged critics at the time, who complained of their ugliness.
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Nijinsky has the best statistical record in terms of big races but did not have as good opponents as Mill Reef, who I personally vote the best post-war British Racehorse.
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The work was commissioned from Nijinsky and Claude Debussy, a French composer, by Serge Diaghilev, a Russian impresario whose Ballets Russes seasons caused a furore in Paris and in London.
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Parisians can be buried alongside Berlioz, Degas and Nijinsky in the cemetery at Montmartre, which was dug out of an old chalk quarry that had been used as a communal grave during the French Revolution.
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The black, white and gray palette for this landscape, populated by none of the tribal figures featured in Vaslav Nijinsky's original version of "Rite, " is elaborated along the way by spreading-ink-stain projections and by trajectories of smoke rings that appear shot from a cannon.
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