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Nijinsky took the title role himself in his first major creation presented largely in profile as if the dancers were part of a bas relief or Greek vase painting. The work tells of the faun spying seven nymphs going to bathe and failing to catch one the short work ends with the faun apparently masturbating on a veil the chief nymph has left behind.\r\n\r\nAlthough leading dansers often like to be associated with roles created by the charismatic Nijinsky, Rudolf Nureyev avoided most of these (except for Les Sylphides and Petrouchka) until late in his career. Early in 1979 he was invited to perform several Nijinsky roles including the Faun for the Joffrey Ballet’s homage to Diaghilev (the year that saw many events marking the fiftieth anniversary of Diaghilev’s death). He learnt the role from a number of sources, from Charles Jude who knew the version Léonide Massine and Romola Nijinsky had staged for the Paris Opéra, from William Chappell and Elisabeth Schooling who Joffrey invited to stage the work and had leant it from Léon Woizikowsky and Lydia Sokolova when the mounted it for Rambert’s Ballet Club in 1931 and from studying the Baron de Meyer photographs. This last probably accounts for the American critic claiming that Nureyev moved from pose to pose. Later in 1979 Nureyev danced the ballet with Margot Fonteyn as the Chief Nymph with London Festival Ballet at the London Coliseum. He danced it again at the London Coliseum in July 1983 with the Ballet de Nancy.\r\n\r\nThe role remained in Nureyev’s repertoire. Previously he had danced in new interpretations of the Faun in Jerome Robbins’ Afternoon of a Faun for The Royal Ballet and had created Toer van Schayk’s Faun with Dutch National Ballet. 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