Nijinsky

These past three weeks on hiatus, I have also been reading Diaghilev (a life) by Sjeng Scheijen. Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929) is the historically famous impresario of the Ballets Russes. He was flamboyant and openly gay at a time when this was not generally accepted even in Paris in the 1920’s. Under his commission, the greatest of 20th century composers wrote […]