Summary
Dance prodigy, sex symbol, gay pioneer, cultural icon--Vaslav Nijinsky rose to fame as the star of the Ballets Russes in Paris before mental illness stole his career and the last thirty years of his life. A tragic story of a great genius, this compelling work of narrative nonfiction chronicles a lif... Full description
- Prologue: Wonder of wonders
- Born to dance
- World of art
- The Ballets Russes
- Celebrity and adulation
- Petrushka
- The Afternoon of a Faun
- Games and rituals
- Romola
- The war years
- The last dance
- Leap into madness
- Epilogue: Legacy and legend.