Nijinsky, so it is said boys and girls, in times gone by without a cell of film for proof, made his body his marionette a huddle of sticks and wire, and played its strings so expertly it seemed to dance like a living thing, mid-air, like an angel: of Europe the stages vaulting raising the dead to wonder without before or since. Commit to memory girls and boys, all in a row, the famous dancer Nijinsky.