After all of us settled into Merle's car, Dame Ninette related one more story from her infinite repertoire. She told us about the first time she saw the famous Nijinsky dance. Her mother had taken her to the theatre, when she was "quite a young girl" -- which meant this took place very early in the century.
"When I first saw him enter," she said, "I hid under my seat on the floor. My mother looked over and asked me, 'What are you doing down there?' I told her, 'I don't like that man!' He seemed more of an animal than a man. . . and he frightened me. . . I liked everyone else on stage, but Nijinsky scared me."
The Shape of Love by Gelsey Kirkland. 1990. Pages 167-8.
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