Bronislava Nijinska noted in her memoirs that the ten-minute ballet L’Après-Midi d’un Faune required ninety rehearsals. In the early stages of developing the ballet, Nijinsky had his sister try out some of his choreography. In 1922, Bronislava Nijinska took the unusual step of performing in the ballet not as the Nymph, but as the Faune—the role created by her brother Vaslav Nijinsky. Mikhail Larinov (1881–1964) created this drawing of Nijinska as the Faune, with Diaghilev watching.