Felix Cherniavsky - Clippings 1900s 1

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Felix Cherniavsky - Clippings 1900s 1

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( Page 2 ) Bohemia , par . 2 , continued echoes ( reinforces ) the language of the limbs . Nevertheless , what we see is not a pantomime ; rather , it is a dance , verses ( poetry ) in gestures , so to speak , and not a performance of them . These certainly overpower the spectator ( one ) . Bright , Bright , child like joy and painful sorrow , XXX flushed sensual desire and the shock of the soul faced with the secret of death -- all this , this somewhat too slender and not overly enticing body knows how to represent suggestively . Par . 3 : In all its might , however , ( this capacity ) emerges in the fantas tically brilliant Salome scene . It is as if a wildly jerking sensuality were driven into the slender body , as if it began to blossom and to swell forth and glow through mer skin , the shimmering armour of lust with glittering gems and pearls , in which Moreau clad his most renowned portrait of the king's daughter from Judea , we see the dancer . In naked sensuality , her body beseeching ( calculating ) she meets the eyes of Herod ; the rhythm of her motion accelerates ; she knows what she wants , and suddenly in its grisly horror the head of the prophet is handed to her from the cistern . With the natural motions of the wild ash she dances Salome , the demivierge of the perverse instincts , gaze now focused on the pale head in heated ecstasy . Wildly she revolves her head in jerking madness ; her eyes and fingers groping in the cramps of love , they fantasize about unheard - of desires ; shame seems to have vanished from her per spiring body ; one draws back from the flame of this passion ... Finally abrupt shock overcomes her , freezes her motion , forces her to lay aside the dead head and to be paralyzed in the numb pose of nameless self - disgust . Only curtainfall releases the spell of this unique vision . All of Prague will , no doubt , be talking about Miss Allan over the next two weeks .