Word: emilia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outbreak of the War found Nijinsky and his troupe in Budapest where he had just married the daughter of Emilia Markus, famed Hungarian actress. He was promptly interned, later allowed to leave the country for a dance tour of South America. On his return he went to live in St. Moritz, and there, because he could not dance, he began to draw: dance movements, sketches of his daughter, his servants.* It was one of the servants who had been with Nietzsche when that philosopher went mad, who first realized that Vaslav Nijinsky was losing his mind. Nijinsky never became violent...