Authors

Discussion

In the so called “Diary” Vaslav Nijinsky wrote: “I like a round theatre. I will build a round theatre.” How should we imagine or even how could we enact the vision of round theatre that Nijinsky’s idio(syncra)tic writing brings? In what ways can we consider what he wrote in his notebooks outside of psychiatric bounds and inside discourses in contemporary performing arts which remain fascinated with Nijinsky? In my contribution I would like to propose answers to these questions in reference to the reenactment of Nijinsky’s last public performance that I staged exactly 105 years after the original performance. My argument is that the recital and the notebooks constitute more than a case for psychiatry. They - in poetic, if also psychotic way - reimagined Nijinsky’s dancing (and ballet with it) as experimental, politically oriented form of contemporary theatre which roundness is yet to be fully grasped.