the show’s seventy minutes, there are more than three hundred lighting cues.
Wilson has always been interested in mental aberrations. Indeed, as a child he had a “processing disorder,” as he has called it. He was slow to read and slow to learn, and he had a terrible stutter.
.. So it’s easy to see why Nijinsky’s condition, which is thought to have been schizophrenia, would have attracted him—as would Nijinsky’s profession.
.. Wilson also had the ideal star: Mikhail Baryshnikov. What a trick! To get the foremost male ballet dancer of the late twentieth century to portray the foremost male ballet dancer of the early twentieth century.
.. What it would need is an actor-dancer of extreme subtlety, which is what Baryshnikov, in his late-sixties, had become.
.. the show’s seventy minutes, there are more than three hundred lighting cues.