This should get your engines going this morning. Any balletomanes here,other than Rooo? I fell down this rabbit hole looking for footage of the fabled dancer Nijinski of the Ballet Russes circa 1910. He was said have the highest leaps of any male dancer, ever, and even seemed to levitate. Sadly there are only a couple of minutes of footage of this dancer, and it's virtually unwatchable. One of his most legendary performances was "Afternoon of a faun", which he also choreographed. Based on the paintings on Classical Greek pottery, and incredibly stylized; more like modern dance. I've posted two performances, one by Nikolai Tsiskaridze, with the Ballet Russes who is an amazingly talented dancer, but ... the other performance is by Nureyev with the Joffrey Ballet, who was a force of nature. I've posted the Nureyev first, and if you only watch one, make it the Nureyev. I think the Tsiskaridze version is very beautiful, but Nureyev makes it clear that the character ...