Nijinsky's Last Dance
Nijinsky as Petrouchka 1910
On January 19, 1919
at five o’clock in the afternoon in a ballroom of the Suvretta House Hotel in St. Moritz, Switzerland, Vaslav Nijinsky danced publicly for the last time. He called this performance his “Wedding with God”.
~~ from the Hamburg Ballet's playbill for Neumeier's ballet Nijinsky
from Nijinsky's handwritten diary - "God Nijinsky"
Nijinsky in England 1945
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