Felix Cherniavsky - Research Notes

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Felix Cherniavsky - Research Notes

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Notes from Chapter 4 -- DIFFERENT WAYS OF BEING SHOCKED . There was the type of person who found anything ' Eastern ' shocking - and in its expressiveness Maud Allan's dancing is ctainly ' Eastern ' The whole garden of Eastern beauty has to our Western minds somthing wicked about it and for that reason no doubt the West built up a school of dancing rigidly technical in its movements and , to that extent , it hoped , devoid of any sensual or individuak expression . Thus th ttiutde of many who condemned Miss Allan's art as Eastern was fundamentally right in its premises . The Times took this poin and deplored it . Another view : Dancing was a ideease , going back to 14th century tradition . Religious and aesthetic view == shocked by the dummy head in Salome . for ex : Archdeacon Sinclair some saw it and rejected it as sensationalism . on the whole : unconvincing and insincere . some saw it as unpleasant , others as ludicrous . Some thought it clever and bizarre . Maud's clothing was centre of shock , though . There was nothing shocking ot even sensually stimulating in her stage appearance ( Prob . true Controversy : is the nude decent or indecent ? ( 10 To the pure everything is pure ( ii ) the only woman a man should see nude is his wife . Crisis in Manchester and Watch Committee differences betn this version and newspapers ' . i . e . Mr. Peacock's visit to London . From these simple facts there arose one of the bitterest and most bulky newspaper controversies that has ever been raised in the Press " For months after Manchester became an object of popular ridicule The absurdity of it all was that Manchester had banned what the King the Prime Mi ister , an Archdeacon [ ? ] and the whole of fashionable London , as well as several thousands of others , had wholeheartedly the pot approvved . This was wärse than calling the kettle black . It was as The Bystander remarked a case of " the Vicar shaking hos head over the blameless Churchwarden " . Refer also to Lines " Maud Allan on a summer's day Dancer daintily in light array .....