Joan Acocella • Vaslav Nijinsky and the Mad Genius Formula

Wolf Humanities Center's 2009-2010 Forum on Connections March 3, 2010 Joan Acocella Staff Writer, The New Yorker Since ancient times, people have believed in the connection between artistic genius and eccentricity, irrationality, and even insanity. The “mad genius” formula has been especially prevalent in discussions of dance. New Yorker critic Joan Acocella examines the history of this convention in dance criticism and assesses its value in a lecture on the great dancer/choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky. For more information on this event: https://wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/va...