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Vaslav Nijinsky

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They are stupid, they are beasts, they are meat, they are death. I am talking simply but without any affectation.


— Vaslav Nijinsky


#death #meat #death

People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.


— Vaslav Nijinsky


#am #clown #eccentrics #i #i am

They won’t put me in an insane asylum because I dance very well and give money to anyone who asks.


— Vaslav Nijinsky


#mental-illness #schrizophrenia #money






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Chinchilla (1977) by Robert David MacDonald. He gathered together a team including designers Alexandre Benois and Leon Bakst painters Nicholas Roerich Alexander Glazunov and Konstantin Korovine composers Glazunov and Tcherepnin regisseurs Vsevolod Meyerhold and Alexander Sanine and other ballet enthusiasts. Cultural depictions


In plays

Clownmaker (1975) Richard Crane/Faynia Williams Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award transfer to London and New York
In 1974-75 Terence Rattigan was commissioned to write a play about Nijinsky and Diaghilev as the BBC's Play of the Month.

In 1907 he graduated and became a member of the Imperial ballet starting at the rank of coryphée instead of in the corps de ballet already taking starring roles. Aged 9 he joined the Imperial Ballet School in St Petersburg the pre-eminent ballet school in the world. In 1913 Nijinsky married Hungarian Romola de Pulszky while on tour with the company in South America.

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