Vaslav Nijinsky : A Leap into Madness by Peter F. Ostwald, Ch. 8 : Playing the Role of a Madman, p. 176
Frases de Vaslav Nijinski
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Vaslav Nijinski
Data de nascimento: 12. Março 1889
Data de falecimento: 8. Abril 1950
Wacław Niżyński, em polaco, Vatslav Fomitch Nijinski, em russo - no cirílico, Вацлав Фомич Нижинский, - foi um bailarino e coreógrafo russo de origem polaca.
Considerado um dos maiores bailarinos de seu tempo, viveu a dança desde muito cedo, pois era filho de bailarinos poloneses, que se apresentavam em teatros e circos. Dançando nas apresentações de seus pais, atuou desde os quatro anos de idade.
Após seu pai ter abandonado a família, mudou-se com sua mãe para São Petersburgo, na Rússia. Com dez anos de idade, iniciou seus estudos em dança na escola de balé do Teatro Imperial. Aos dezoito anos foi o par da bailarina Anna Pavlova. No ano seguinte, em 1909, viajou para Paris com a companhia de balé de Sergei Diaghilev, na qual obteve reconhecimento internacional.
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Citações Vaslav Nijinski
Since I gave up meat I feel better. My thoughts are clearer and I run instead of walking. I only walk for a rest. I run a lot because I feeel a force in me; my muscles, my hair, are more obedient. I dance more lightly, and I have a big appetite.
The diary of Vaslav Nijinsky - página 77, Waslaw Nijinsky, Romola de Pulszky Nijinsky - Simon and Schuster, 1936 - 187 páginas
I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death, I left in order not to see their death. I could not bear it I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe, I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb.
The diary of Vaslav Nijinsky - página 73, Waslaw Nijinsky, Romola de Pulszky Nijinsky - Simon and Schuster, 1936 - 187 páginas
„People like eccentrics and they will therefore leave me alone, saying that I am a "mad clown."“
As quoted in Vaslav Nijinsky : A Leap into Madness by Peter F. Ostwald, Ch. 8: Playing the Role of a Madman, p. 176
Unsourced variant: I know everyone will say "Nijinsky has gone mad," but I don’t care because I have already played the mad man at home. That is what everyone will think, but they won’t put me in an insane asylum because I dance very well and give money to anyone who asks. People like eccentrics, so they will leave me alone and say I’m a mad clown. I like the mentally ill because I know how to talk to them. When my brother was in an insane asylum, I loved him and he could feel me. His friends liked me. I was eighteen then. I understood the life of a mentally ill person.
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