Nijinsky

Male | 60+ | 3 to 5 minutes
Starts on page 2

EXTRACT: Before I die .... and I must! Thirty years of madness, silence, immobility is enough! I'm sixty-one years old. I was born in Kiev in 1889. I have lived in rage ever since. Not passion - rage! Even this long twilight is rage - a raging silence in the face of - in the face of - in the face of my wife!

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Diaghilev

Male | Age unspecified | Under 3 minutes
Starts on page 21

EXTRACT: Sergei Pavlovitch, history will indeed make judgement on the outrageously unfair way you have treated me as an artist. You have my resignation. And the Ballets Russes can now have as choreographer a young man who works in secrecy for fear of criticism and who takes over a year to create a 12-minute ballet.

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