Felix Cherniavsky - Clippings 1900s 1

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Felix Cherniavsky - Clippings 1900s 1

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43 Pall Mall Gazette . # 6 than the A Manch ? NEW DANCER . --pring 1908 rementoer . ******** ** Song and the Valse , - and , perhaps , most of all as she appeared when in response to the applause , ' she came MAUD ALLAN AT THE PALACE before the curtain and modestly bowed her thanks . She strikes one as a rather interesting personality , whose THEATRE P. 8 work it would be a pity to vulgarise ' by extravagant Cof 2 . description ; and , as has been said , her nianagement of her arms and hands is extraordinarily beautiful . It is to be regretted that so much extravagant writ . Pall Mall Gazette March7 1908 . ? . ing , should have been circulated in connection with the appearance of Miss Maud Allan , the dancer , at the Palace Theatre . Born in Toronto , we are told that she belongs to a land where the fires of the French tem A NEW DANCER , perament glow ardently through the icy purity of the People of Snow . " . And we are also told a good deal CANADIAN WHO WILL mores , calculated only to have the effect of making the STIR LONDON . young lady appear rather ridiculous . This , hs we have SAT 7/3 said , is a pity ; for , when she makes her first public AN ECIIO OF ANCIENT appearance on Monday evening next , the audience will , DAILY GREECE 7 Madd unless we are much'mistaken , recognise a very genuine MALE 196.8 London is to have another artistic sensa talent . She gave her entertainment yesterday after tion , which is likely to cause more stir even Sicilians . " On Monday night , noon before a large company of invited guests ; and Miss Maud Allan , tho Canadian dancer , any lack of enthusiasm displayed may , we think , be put who has aroused the wildest enthusiasm wherever ebe performed on the Continent , down , to the absurd expectation's held out and the sin is to make her first appearance at the Palace Theatre . The sordid realism of gular picture painted of her in a certain circular , A the amazing Sicilians is to be followed by lady of whom we are told that " she has ransacked the a dinplay of artistry of a very different type --the tangible by a pure abstraction . In shrines of plastic Beauty and worshipped humbly and Miss Allan , all the noblest arts , the music of the masters , the rhythm of imaginary prayerfully , before the Art of the Universe ” inust , be porms , the triumphy of Groek woulpture and of Botticelli's brush , are expressed or prepared for a little coldness of scrutiny from an English a suggested in the measured movements of a perfectly shaped body . audience . Miss Allan , who displayed her marvellous art to an wvited audience at the Palace Miss Allan dances to classic music , principally that Theatre yesterday afternoon , dances not only Chopin's Valse in A ininor and Rubin of Chopin ; and one of her most dramatic performances stein's Valse Caprice " : obe dance Men . del sohn's Spring Song , " and " Chopin's * Marche Funebre ” ! And she dances " The is given to the strains of the far - famed Funeral March . Vision of Salume " ! The subtlest nuances of the inusic are Draped and hooded in sombre muslins , she seeks to echoed in the quivering movements of her body - movements the dio vf which are express by her movements the emotion's conveyed by the in inodern day and in Ancient Grece may music ; and , upon the whole , one may say that there is have known such dancing . Again and again Miss Allan translates into a good deal of harmony between her performance and life the dancing and piping maidens painted on Greek vases aud carved in Greek reliefs . the melody : In a gayer mood she gives a perfectly INTOXICATION OF MUSIC . delightful dance to the music of Mendelssohn's Spring Then , suddenly , Botticelli's " Allegory of Spring " is called into life by her , figure by Song - as joyous a thing as London has seen . To a figure , attitude by attitude . Her body shrinks and expands with the movement Rubinstein ** Valse " Çaprice her movements are wilder , and accentuation of the music . Now she is an impish sprite dancing in angular mean . more abandoned , always very , expressive ; and there is dering rhythm across the stage ; then sud denly she beconies a * Diane Chasseresse equal interest in her interpretation of one of Chopin's of the French eighteenth century , and thea , with the growing intoxication of the Valses , and of one of his ' Mazurka's . She dances with musie , a reeling Bacchante , reeling , but bare feet , which , one would say , is rather a handicap to still rhythmically moving , until she lapses with the name grace with which she her than otherwise . Her arms , also , are bare ; and the was just spinning round the stage . makes us rcalire , as we have never realised most remarkable feature of her whole performance is before , the close links the really exquisite use she makes of them and of her plastic and pictorial arts of periods divided by many centuries - from the Etruscan vase , hands . We can recall no dancer who has made aróns through Botticelli , to Carpeaux Miss Allan dances not only with her legs and hands so expressive and so fascinating . and feet , but with every part of her body , with her sery skin , that has thrills and ... Her face is a handsome one , with a pleasant expres shivers such as are produced by the sudden sion , and of quite the English type ; but for her last of her arms are indescribably and strangely beautiful . She moves them not as we have dance , which she calls “ The Vision of Salome , " and other deacers move them , but as though longitudinal waves were running which , she apparently regards as her chef d'auvre , she from shoulder to finger - tip . And her hands wears a very unbecoming black wig , and contorts her dance ; every finger dancer ; everything be comes movement and rhythm . features into a variety of more or less exaggerated ex In the " Vision of Salome the classic Greek maiden is transformed into a hot . pressions , faw of which are beautiful . This is presented blooded , sensual Oriental ; the lithebess of as the dance of Herodias , which won as its reward the her body becom's snakelike , seductive . She glides and slides around the head of St. head of John the Baptist , and towards the end of it the John with inovements suggesting a cat eser . cising its agility and senting its cruelty , head appears , as in a vision ; resultiog in divers disagrees upon a helpless mouse . It is the dance that will draw London to the Palace ; able transports on the part of the dancer , This takes but Miss Allan's supreme artistic achieve Valse Caprice . P. G. E. place to music of an Eastern colour ; and the whole thing js undeniably as clever as it is sensational ; but , for our own part , we took but little pleasure in it , and prefer to remember Miss Allan as she tripped through the Spring not been seen western countries . Who knows ? col . She that connect the contact with cold water . The movements Spen Salome tuent is the