Nijinsky: A Life by Lucy Moore " review
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…