... already cast his first dancer and lover, Vaslav Nijinsky, as a slave twice by the time Schkhkruzude premiered in the Ballets Russes’s second season. This casting, which seemed to mock Nijinsky’s bond with his impresario, became a standing joke with Ballets Russesfervents, as more than one...

... an imaginative dialogue that both acquiesces to and resists acceptance of loss. 22. Earlier works such as “Ellen West,” “Herbert White,” and “The War of Vaslav Nijinsky” are especially evocative examples of Bidart’s engagement with Browning, although, according to Bidart, one of his chief...

... impas- sioned interest in was my writing about what I called “the Scheherazade party” in a 1989 article “Flaming Closets,” which I began by discussing the recurrence of the “Scheherazade party” from Serge Diaghilev and Vaslav Nijinsky’s 1910 ballet to an impromptu striptease-­and-­dancing...

...-and-ink portraits of gay-male icons such as Edouard de Max of the Comédie Française and Ballets Russes performer Vaslav Nijinsky.20 For militant sapphists like Natalie Barney (whose salon Cahun attended only once), “Paris Lesbos” remained more of a dream than a reality in the 1910s and 1920s. Male...

... the Larry Kramer play has given it new currency- “normal hearts”: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal heart; For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have, Not universal love But to be loved alone...