Felix Cherniavsky - Clippings 1900s 1

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Felix Cherniavsky - Clippings 1900s 1

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Maud Allan Research Collection
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a Two well known journalists questionned the legitimacy q of Maud Allan's art and success . The first to do so was Christopher St. John , pseudonym of Christina Marshall , Ellen iu Terry's editor and life - long friend of Ellen Terry's daughter " All We hike Sheep " Edith . In an artiele , published on May 2 , 1908 The Academy A ( of which Lord Alfred Douglas was editor_ ) Christopher St. John argued that by dint of skilful publicity London had been duped into thinking Maud Allan " a genuine dancer , a great artrist . , " whereas , so the article concluded , Stme of the adulation given to Miss Attanastá dancer should be transferred to her as a hypnotist . She makes the audience think her wonderful . As it takes two to make a work of art , is not the thought of the audience as important as the skill of the performer ? If orre is not easily hypnotised , however , one cannot help noticing the rigidity of the new dancer's body and the immobility of her head . One cannot help criticising the movements of the larms - movements which seem to be made academically rather than as an expression of emo tion , as if the dancer were instructing a class in the Delsarte method rather than translating beautiful sound into beautiful form . This " translating ” of music is , anyhow , rather a dangerous business . Would every composer admit that his melody became more expressive when interpreted by the dancer ? Sometimes Miss Allan seems to misinterpret or to obscure what she sets out to reveal . This is notably the case in Rubinstein's " Valse Caprice , " where Miss Allan hugs the ground like a lapwing precisely where the music suggests that she should leap like the hart . Miss Allan is a very earnest young lady with a sincere conviction of her mission . She dances like a revivalist preacher , and makes as many converts . It would be stupid not to admire the character which has brought about so great a success . But it is just as stupid to mistake this character , this American " grit " and " bluff " for beautiful art . There is very little art in Miss Allan's performance . She herself admits this when she says that she has never learned to dance . Perhaps this is one of the secrets of her success in England . The English people dearly love a lord . ' The English lord ( and the class he represents ) dearly loves the amateur , * 9 48 remise for which Donglas limpo a polaga Alfred Butt publicly potested this article , & longer issued И .

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