Felix Cherniavsky - Undated Clippings

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Felix Cherniavsky - Undated Clippings

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.. 3 sorrow , must be acclaimed a great artist . For this is the highest art , -- to create an illusion that remains a vivid impression in the brain after the figure itself has passed from the stage . as The range of Maud Allan's emotional expression and the beauty of her aesthetic visualization of thought and emotion always impressed me astounding It seemed almost as if she were the disembodied spirit of poetry , the essence of poetry expressed through the medium of perfect grace in motion , in poise , in repose . For this graceful woman could convey to you as much in a moment of absolute re laxation , absolute immobility , as she could in a mo ment of ecstatic abandon or supreme intoxication of passion . dreamed of , emotions you never slepected before . It was a pulsating , vibrant , exultant picture of Dawn ; it was the very soul of Sorrow and Pain ; it was the shadow of Death's heavy wings ; it was the Spirit of Elf - Land . She transcribed the Shuber " Moment Musical ” -that perfect melody -- into an expression of girlish glee , the essence of innocent fun and frolic . " By the Sea " --- so marvellously true in its atmospheric suggestions as to make it almost in credible that Shubert , in his brief life , never saw the sea , was interpreted with a feeling for poetic suggestion that made its meaning as lucid as crystal , and Mendelssohn's " Spring Song " was a riot of exu berant , unrestrained joy in living . Things primeval , emotions elemental , all the joy and all the pain of living were portrayed in bodily motion , in facial expression , in a harmonious utili zation of the histrionics of silence to dramatic ends . Hers has always been a three - fold gift -- the gift of silent laughter ; the gift of skill to reveal , up and down a gamut of emotions at once all - embracing and supreme , all the senses , all the passions , all the way ward fancies of poetry and drama and song ; and the vision of the Hellenic ideal that enables her - un consciously , it may be -- to utilize all her art and all her genius as an illuminative faculty for making c the meaning of the music to which her body swa and glides and leaps and whirls . a She was a dancer inspired by the old Hellenic ideals , the old Hellenic spirit . Something of the loveliness of that spirit was continually made mani fest in every motion of her marvellously rhythmical body , of her swiftly - moving , eloquent feet . But there was more than interpretation in her dancing . It was a supreme visualization of the very spirit of poetry -- of life itself , that she achieved . Watching her in the Peer Gynt suite , you dis covered in that exquisite music beauties you never 235 236 All the lives of her dancerich are Greek , but there is nolling Mudred ordbrous about it . She is , s till : sne s studied or obvious about # . think , the most spontaneous dancer , apart from the Russians , I have ever seen . You could not misin terpret the message her dancing conveys . Watching her dance the famous Blue Danube waicz , you would say to yourself : Is not this the very incarnation of rhythmic ecstasy , of flowing melody , of dreamy loveliness in sound and motion ? And yet you could never particularize a single pose , a single step . a single movement , and say that it had been taken by design .

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