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Nijinsky: A Life by Lucy Moore " review by Peter Conrad

A biography of Nijinsky wisely parallels his dancing with his sexual developmentHow can we separate the dancer from the dance? Nijinsky's art was a vanishing act, and his mystique depended on gestures that lasted only a second, like his leap through a window in The Spectre of a Rose, or the slight but scandalous quivering of his thighs that mimed ejaculation when, performing Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun, he rubbed h…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 3:00am on May 5, 2013

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