Marie Rambert on Vaslav Nijinsky's Leap in 'Le Spectre de la Rose'

Описание: Performances in the Ballets Russes of Serge de Diaghilev (1909-1929) transmute by some mysterious process into events legendary proportions. And Nijinsky’s jump in ‘Le Spectre de la Rose’ more than most.

Here Marie Rambert recollects the jump - consciously, I think, making a distinction between a factual but a poetic judgement.

Of the company in general, it is widely said that the corps were often of a fairly ordinary standard.

What is your sense or judgment of the standard of the company in performance?