Brochure cover: Baron Adolf de Meyer. Photograph of Nijinsky as the Faun in L’Après-midi d’un Faune, Paris, 1911. Roger Pryor Dodge Collection, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Since no film survives, our judgments of Nijinsky's dancing are based on descriptions and photographs. The Jerome Robbins Dance Division houses the acclaimed Roger Pryor Dodge Collection of photographs showing Nijinsky in action. Some are by celebrated artists of the lens, such as the Baron Adolf de Meyer; others are by promotional photographers whose job was to shoot what was happening on stage and deliver it quickly to a newspaper or magazine. They let us understand the impact of Nijinsky on stage - the power, the weight and the excitement felt by his contemporary audiences. In the gallery, you can also see artists' depictions of Nijinsky, in motion and, occasionally in mid-air. At the back of the Gallery is a theater in which reconstructions of Nijinsky's choreography can be viewed.