��� when he was twenty-eight, Nijinsky stopped dancing and choreographing. He began his last recital, which he declared to be about the horrors of the First World War, by telling his audience, ���I will show you how we live, how we suffer, how we artists create���. He then sat on a chair onstage for half an hour without moving. When he was encouraged by the spectator to begin his dance, he retorted angrily: ���How dare you disturb me! I am not a machine, I will dance when I feel like it���.

from David Kishik's The Power of Life