Felix Cherniavsky - Clippings 1900s 1

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Felix Cherniavsky - Clippings 1900s 1

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This is how she was invented . Germany cannot dance , except in a Carnival way . She is too fat , but she likes good dancing Knows it when she sees it , and is free to have it when she likes it , for in every thing in that country except politics , Germany is the freest counfry in Europe , and so in dancing , as in nearly all the other arts , she has taken out upate as the competent wet - nurse of all new ideas . Ar wet - nurse , however , who does not go mad wer her foster - children as we do when we happen to collide with one of them , and who very quickly tires of her deputy motherhood . Ten or twenty years ago -Berlin tired of the tip - toe ballet , and Isadora Duncan offered it a new suckling . " After due deliberation , Berlin ac septed it and installed Isadora as person age , but refused to make her fortune for her ; still she got her hearing and the critics . under stood . she went travelling , and throve it . She has travelled everywhere . Munich and Vienna have acclaimed her , Paris Whows her and worships , and she has planned , oradnised , and danced in the Venusburg dances at the Wagner Festival at Bayreuth . She has not danced the Salome , thank God ! I 1 hrst saw her in Gluck's Iphigenia " at estre des Westens , Berlin . Two pigs sat beside me and speculated with watery chops on how much of her one would see Then the lights went out , and the homely artificial music started playing , and thy dull - coloured backcloth stirred and parted for a mdment , and there was a child standing before us , a child with a serene woman's face , a bare : foor child in simple girt - up gown . My pigs shuffled about uneasily . There was some thing in the face that liked them not . The child moved very slowly , keeping time to the broad simple rhythms ; with downcast head , as if waiting / to hear all thnt the music had to say . There was a Kall smile on her lips . I think the music she heard was more wonderful than that we listened to . Slowly , very slowly , the rhythm caught her , and her limbs swed like reeds lightly shaken in the wind he was playing on the sea - shore . Now she ran to pick up a bright - coloured shell , now she tossed a pebble right in the air- caught it -- threw it held it returned from an unseen thrower The noise of the waves quickened and the wind rose . Her blood stirred , and a thrill went through her . She splashed recklessly in the vater : she exulted in the joy feel of it and the bracing bite of the breeze , Her lips moved , she was singing ? though no whisper of a note came to us , for the waves were loud . Oh , the good life , the good life , the good life ! She came leaping , dancing towards us , the arms ***** ing lossing before bere the head tossed jauntily from side to side , the legs splashing one before the other-- rioting , madly , merrily , up and on with the laughing leap of the waves And then the wind dropped , and the noise of the waves died down to a soft churning , and a breathless , laughing girl was look ing at us ( at me and the pigs ) with her clear , calm woman's VOS c