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Authors: Lucy Moore

205
‘with tears in her voice'
: ibid., p. 141.

206
‘Before us we have'
: Accocella in ibid., p. xxvi.

206
‘I am afraid of people'
: ibid., p. 8.

206
‘I do not know'
: ibid., p. 60.

206
‘Come on out!'
: ibid., p. 16.

207
‘
Femmka
, you are bringing'
: Romola Nijinsky,
Nijinsky; and, The last years of Nijinsky
, p. 411.

207
‘a trail of madness'
: Gathorne-Hardy (ed.),
Ottoline: the Early Memoirs of Lady Ottoline Morrell
, p. 228.

207
‘a shade worn … great art'
: Draper,
Music at Midnight
, p. 142.

208
‘living in a dream world'
: Scheijen,
Diaghilev
, p. 349.

209
‘If that's what'
: Gold and Fizdale,
Misia: The Life of Misia Sert
, p. 235.

209
‘Take off … clothes on'
: ibid., p. 235.

212
‘his dancing is'
: Ostwald,
Vaslav Nijinsky: A Leap into Madness
, p. 224.

212
‘Why am I locked up?'
: ibid., p. 238.

212
‘Would you believe … be created'
: Nijinska,
Early Memoirs
, p. 514.

213
‘as though an unspoken conspiracy'
: Tamara Nijinsky,
Nijinsky and Romola
, p. 220.

213
‘I can still taste'
: ibid., p. 221.

213
‘Vatsa, you are being lazy … am mad'
: Ostwald,
Vaslav Nijinsky: A Leap into Madness
, p. 266.

214
‘I can't take it'
: Parker,
Nijinsky
, p. 10.

214
‘but he did not know me'
: Keynes,
Lydia Lopokova
, p. 141.

214
‘almost suburban … never still'
: Dolin,
Autobiography
, p. 33.

214
‘I had the impression … not sure'
: Gathorne-Hardy (ed.),
Ottoline: the Early Memoirs of Lady Ottoline
Morrell, p. 228.

214
‘Nijinsky is not mad'
: Aschengreen,
Jean Cocteau and the Dance
, p. 229 note.

215
‘captive in his own mind'
: Stravinsky and Craft,
Memories and Commentaries
, p. 35.

215
‘was to some degree'
: Roy Porter,
Sunday Times
article, January 1991.

215
‘biologically based … to develop'
: Nijinsky,
Nijinsky's Diary
, p. xv.

216
Baedeker
: Drummond (ed.),
Speaking of Diaghilev
, p. 62.

216
‘spiritual father'
: Lifar,
Diaghilev
, p. 356.

216
‘our two souls'
: Lifar,
Ma Vie
, p. 44.

216
‘I was enraptured'
: Lifar,
Diaghilev
, p. 302.

216
‘everything and everyone'
: Lifar,
Ma Vie
, p. 49.

217
‘Loves me? …
adorable
!'
: Lifar,
Diaghilev
, p. 345 (see also Lifar,
Ma Vie
, pp. 61–2).

217
‘all the tragedy'
: C. W. Beaumont,
Vaslav Nijinsky
(London, 1932), p. 24.

217
‘he again turned his head'
: Karsavina,
Theatre Street
, p. 243.

218
‘With his big eyes'
: Scheijen,
Diaghilev
, p. 431.

218
‘Who is that? … Can he jump?'
: Karsavina,
Theatre Street
, p. 244.

218
‘Then I saw'
: Rambert,
Quicksilver: The Autobiography of Marie Rambert
, p. 79.

218
‘she could have done more'
: Sokolova,
Dancing for Diaghilev
, p. 47.

218
‘
Je ne veux pas!
'
: Lifar,
Diaghilev
, p. 348.

218
‘modest, self-effacing'
: Stravinsky and Craft,
Memories and Commentaries
, p. 45.

218
‘The longer the earth turns'
: Lifar,
Diaghilev
, p. 237.

219
‘like two mad dogs'
: Sert,
Two or Three Muses
, p. 163.

219
‘now, suddenly, it seems as if'
: Scheijen,
Diaghilev
, p. 442.

219
‘Many things united us'
: Scheijen,
Diaghilev
, p. 443; see also Stravinsky and Craft,
Memories and Commentaries
, p. 47.

220
‘the burden of taking care'
: Tamara Nijinsky,
Nijinsky and Romola
, p. 246.

220
‘tries to act'
: Margaret Severn in Gottlieb (ed.),
Reading Dance
, p. 692.

221
‘the only man in this world'
: Ostwald,
Vaslav Nijinsky: A Leap into Madness
, p. 285.

222
‘Long talk later'
: L. Kirstein,
By With To & From. A Lincoln Kirstein Reader
(New York, 1991), p. 150.

222
‘By then his masterpiece'
: See Richard Tarushkin's article in the
New York Times
, 14 September 2012, ‘Shocker Cools into a “Rite” of Passage'.

222
‘sometimes one can snatch'
: Kirstein,
Nijinsky Dancing
, p. 35.

222
‘My wife is an untwinkling star'
: Nijinsky),
Nijinsky's Diary
, p. 153.

223
‘punishment at school … his dependency'
:
The Times
, 2 January 1982.

223
‘this exceptional, gentle'
: Ostwald,
Vaslav Nijinsky: A Leap into Madness,
p. 127.

223
‘complained about everything'
: a doctor at Bellevue quoted in ibid., p. 306.

224
‘incapable of showing'
: Tamara Nijinsky,
Nijinsky and Romola
, p. 209.

224
‘Silently, he gazed …his heart'
: ibid., p. 266.

224
‘How good! … the air'
: Lifar,
Diaghilev
, p. 376.

225
‘simply relished being in his presence'
: Tamara Nijinsky,
Nijinsky and Romola
, p. 279.

226
‘I fell in love'
: Buckle,
Nijinsky
, p. 435.

227
‘sensation mongering … very cruel'
:
News Review
, 11 October 1945.

227
‘Sometimes he would kiss my cheek'
: Buckle,
Nijinsky
, p. 436.

227
‘a plump and well-contented'
: A. L. Haskell,
Balletomane at Large: an autobiography
(London, 1972), p. 86.

228
‘like a docile child'
:
Sunday Chronicle
, 9 April 1950.

228
‘Like gypsies'
: Romola Nijinsky,
Nijinsky; and, The last years of Nijinsky
, p. 565.

228
‘in his glory'
: Buckle,
Nijinsky
, p. 442.

228
‘saintly … our hearts'
: Tamara Nijinsky,
Nijinsky and Romola
, p. 373.

10 THE CHOSEN ONE

233
‘refused to accept'
: Tamara Nijinsky,
Nijinsky and Romola
, p. 236.

233
‘And who could blame her?'
: Buckle,
Nijinsky
(1980 edition), p. xxxi.

233
‘both her strength'
: Tamara Nijinsky,
Nijinsky and Romola
, p. 33.

234
‘truly awful … talentless'
: Roy Porter article in
Sunday Times
, January 1991.

234
‘You know, they got it'
: Drummond (ed.),
Speaking of Diaghilev
, p. 32.

235
‘Very strange. There was a Russian'
: ibid., p. 60.

235
‘generosity was boundless'
: L. Garafola and N. V. N. Baer (eds),
The Ballets Russes and its
World, p. 261.

236
‘sustain it …for anyone'
: Drummond (ed.),
Speaking of Diaghilev
, p. 114.

236
‘was the permeating genius'
: Draper,
Music at Midnight
, p. 141.

237
‘Any outstanding work'
: Dolin,
Autobiography
, p. 32.

237
‘much more limited'
: Lifar,
Diaghilev
, p. 201.

238
‘I know that Diaghilev'
: Nijinsky,
Nijinsky's Diary
, p. 206.

238
‘Diaghilev did not like me'
: ibid., p. 103.

238
‘It was we, the painters'
: Lifar,
Diaghilev
, p. 141.

238
‘We were all of us'
: Haskell,
Balletomania
, p. 95.

238
‘convenient for many reasons'
: Kirstein,
Dance: A Short History of Classic Theatrical Dancing
, p. 283.

238
‘went into his dreams'
: Haskell,
Balletomania
, p. 67.

239
‘in reality … clever man'
: Romola Nijinsky,
Nijinsky; and The last years of Nijinsky
, pp. 25–6.

239
‘all the more misleading'
: Haskell,
Balletomania
, p. 65.

239
‘artist should show himself'
: Beaumont,
The Diaghilev Ballet in London
, p. 40.

239
The poet Wayne Koestenbaum quoted in Kopelson
,
The Queer Afterlife of Vaslav Nijinsky
, p. 214.

240
‘a sign … extremely modest'
: quoted in Hanna Jarvinen in K. Kallioniemi et al. (ed.),
History of Stardom Reconsidered
(Turku, 2007).

241
‘although he was showman enough'
: Stravinsky and Craft,
Memories and Commentaries
, p. 41.

241
‘there is nothing uglier'
: Haskell,
Balletomania,
p. 70.

241
‘the risk, and'
: Drummond (ed.),
Speaking of Diaghilev
, p. 61.

241
‘this most homosexual'
: Buckle,
Nijinsky
, p. 96.

242
‘To make Sergey Pavlovich happy'
: Romola Nijinsky,
Nijinsky; and The last years of Nijinsky
, p. 109.

242
‘predominantly homosexual'
: Buckle,
Nijinsky
(1980 edn), p. xxxii.

242
‘Never, never, have I seen'
: Romola Nijinsky,
Nijinsky; and The last years of Nijinsky
, p. 295.

243
‘in the normal man–woman'
: Buckle,
Nijinsky
, p. 144.

243
‘of a race apart'
: Beaumont,
Nijinsky
, p. 25.

243
‘made the relation'
: Arlene Croce quoted in J. L. Hanna,
Dance, Sex and Gender: Signs of Identity, Dominance, Defiance and Despair
(Chicago, IL, 1988), p. 185.

243
‘Freud's chart of man's'
: L. Kirstein,
Movement and Metaphor: Four Centuries of Ballet
(London, 1970), p. 199.

243
‘If the trilogy of
Faune
'
: A. Croce in Hanna,
Dance, Sex and Gender
, p. 185.

244
‘very much akin to sex'
: Kavanagh,
Rudolf Nureyev: The Life
, p. 190.

244
‘creative imagination'
: Stravinsky and Craft,
Memories and Commentaries
, p. 37.

244
‘
sylphide étrange
'
: Astruc,
Le Pavillon des fantômes
, p. 138.

244
‘potty. His soul'
: J. Mackrell,
Bloomsbury Ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer and Mrs Maynard Keynes
(London, 2008), p. 424.

245
‘the hidden injuries of class'
: Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb,
The Hidden Injuries of Class
(New York, 1972).

245
‘mind broke because'
: Kavanagh,
Rudolf Nureyev: The Life
, p. 413.

246
‘Balanchine always said'
: E. Denby,
Dance Writings
(London, 1986), p. 492.

246
‘At the moment'
: street dancer José Esteban Muñoz quoted in Stoneley,
A Queer History of the Ballet
, p. 20.

246
‘a dancer can leave nothing'
: Mackrell,
Bloomsbury Ballerina
, p. xix.

246
‘know how the great Taglioni'
: Haskell,
Balletomania
, p. 4.

247
‘spiritual activity in physical form'
: Gottlieb (ed.),
Reading Dance
, p. 338 (from Susan Sontag, French
Vogue
, December 1986).

247
‘his technique'
:
Spectator
, 14 April 1950.

247
‘incorporeal lightness'
: Drummond (ed.),
Speaking of Diaghilev
, p. 93; see also Karsavina in the
Dancing Times
, 1950.

247
‘Never has any other dancer'
: Bourman,
The Tragedy of Nijinsky
, p. 8.

247
‘the nature of the Dance'
: Nijinska,
Early Memoirs
, p. 517.

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