Vaslav Nijinski citations

Vaslav Fomitch Nijinski , aussi retranscrit Vaclav Nijinsky ou Vatslav Nizhinski, né à Kiev le 12 mars 1889 et décédé le 8 avril 1950 à Londres, est un danseur et chorégraphe russe d'origine polonaise.

Nijinski est aussi l'auteur d'un système de notation de la danse qu'il inventa pour son usage personnel. Grâce aux recherches de spécialistes, on a pu reconstituer fidèlement certaines de ses chorégraphies, dont L'Après-midi d'un faune et une partie du Sacre du printemps. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. mars 1889 – 8. avril 1950
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Vaslav Nijinski: Citations en anglais

“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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