VASLAV NIJINSKY PROFILE: DANCING WITH THE DEMONS When Vaslav Nijinsky burst on to the Paris stage at the age of 20, the world was enraptured. The Parisians called him the god of dance. Then, in a process which was captured in the frenzied journal he kept at the time, madness began to set in. Now the full, unexpurgated diary is being published for the first time.

The Independent - London | August 8, 1999| | Copyright

IN DECEMBER 1917, Vaslav Nijinsky, at that time the most celebrated male dancer in the Western world, moved into a villa in St Moritz with his wife, Romola, and their three-year-old daughter, Kyra. His relations with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, the company in which he had made his name, were now severed and, with a war on, it was impossible for him to seek other engagements. So he and Romola had decided to retreat to neutral Switzerland and wait for peace. By the time of the armistice, though, Nijinsky had begun to go insane. The diary he wrote from 19 January to 4 March 1919 is the ...

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