Continuing his exploration of madness, Ticino-based author, director and actor Daniele Bernardi has dedicated a show to the painful figure of the “God of Dance” through his personal interpretation of Vaslav Nijinsky's diaries.

Saint-Moritz, winter 1918-19. Having moved to Switzerland a year and a half earlier, awaiting the end of the war, the Russian dancer and choreographer of Polish origin Vaslav Nijinsky – a central figure in 20th-century dance – began to show signs of mental instability. Although the causes of his illness are unclear, several events seem to have contributed to its onset, one of which appears to have taken on a particularly symbolic role: the news of the death of his brother Stanislav, who had suffered from mental illness since childhood. Thus, as the Swiss landscape turned white, Nijinsky began to behave in an increasingly incomprehensible manner, throwing the small community around him into chaos. During those feverish days, he wrote a famous diary, which was only published later. It is precisely from those pages that Daniele Bernardi draws inspiration for an intense monologue, giving body and voice to a soul on the verge of collapse: the obsessions that run through the protagonist's diary – God, redemption, war, the rejection of the flesh and sexuality – resurface in a cyclical vortex of conflicting thoughts, until they become dizzying.