Editing Vaslav Nijinsky (section)

==Legacy==
Nijinsky's daughter Kyra married the Ukrainian conductor [[Igor Markevitch]], and they had a son named Vaslav. The marriage ended in divorce.

His second daughter Tamara Nijinsky grew up with her maternal grandmother, never getting to see her father dance. Later she served as executive director of the Vaslav & Romola Nijinsky Foundation, founded by her mother, to preserve art and writing associated with her parents, and her father's dances.

Nijinsky's ''Diary'' was written during the six weeks in 1919 he spent in Switzerland before being committed to the asylum to Zurich. It reflected the decline of his household into chaos.<ref name="william"/> He elevated feeling and action in his writing. It combined elements of autobiography with appeals for compassion toward the less fortunate.
Discovering the three notebooks of the diary years later, plus another with letters to a variety of people, his wife published a bowdlerized version of the diary in 1936, translated into English by Jennifer Mattingly.<ref name="Acocella"/> She deleted about 40 per cent of the diary, especially references to bodily functions, sex, and homosexuality, recasting Nijinsky as an "involuntary homosexual". She also removed some of his more unflattering references to her and others close to their household. She moved sections around, obscuring the "march of events" obvious in the original version and toning down some of the odder portions, including trying to distinguish between sections in which he writes as God and others as himself. (In the original all such sections are written the same.)<ref name="Acocella"/>

In 1995, the first unexpurgated edition of ''The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky'' was published, edited by ''[[The New Yorker|New Yorker]]'' dance critic [[Joan Acocella]] and translated by Kyril FitzLyon.<ref name=william>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/02/28/reviews/990228.28deresit.html|author=William Deresiewicz|title=Dancing With Madness: Review of 'The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky'|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=28 February 1999|author-link=William Deresiewicz}}</ref> Acocella notes that the diary displays three elements common to schizophrenia: "delusions, disorganized language, and disorganized behavior."<ref name="Acocella"/> It also demonstrates that Nijinsky's thought was showing a "breakdown in selective attention;" his associations would connect in ever-widening circles.<ref name="Acocella"/> A ''New York Times'' review said, "How ironic that in erasing the real ugliness of his insanity, the old version silenced not only Nijinsky's true voice but the magnificently gifted body from which it came. And how fortunate we are to have them both restored."<ref name=william/>

Nijinsky is immortalized in numerous still photographs, many of them by [[E. O. Hoppé]], who photographed the Ballets Russes seasons in London extensively between 1909 and 1921. No film exists of Nijinsky dancing; Diaghilev never allowed the Ballets Russes to be filmed because he felt that the quality of film at the time could never capture the artistry of his dancers. He believed that the reputation of the company would suffer if people saw their performance only in the short, jerky films of the period.<ref>{{Harvnb|Buckle|1971}}</ref>