Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1900s 2

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Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1900s 2

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DRAMA The New Age Maud Allan Dancing . April 11/1998 the Tn 66 99 same . ence . ' In one of the books of W. H. Hudson ( " The Crystal Age " ) there is drawn for us the picture of a world in the future where the whole earth is occupied by small It is no doubt part of the general puritanic restriction of life that has brought our slums and suburbs into and carefully limited clans , all in each of one blood and race , and each occupying as their dwelling the “ House , being , that has also repressed the art of bodily expres sion . Any ugly garments are respectable so long as which has taken centuries to build , and in which their they hide the body . The apotheosis of respectability is life finds physical expression . One of these “ Houses has made of music the way to spirit and one that lives in fact the apotheosis of ugliness in the black coat , That the trousers , and square hat of deacondom . upon the border of a windy coast has elaborated the Palace is crowded nightly to see Maud Allan dancing is leaping of winds and waves and spray upon the sand into a dance of exquisite beauty in which its people therefore a very respectable symbol of revolt against find their supreme expression . It is of such a people , this repression . And Maud Allan has set out to capture archdeacons and bishops ! and not of any ordinary dancers , Maud Allan reminds “ Music , " says Nietzsche , " sets the spirit free . " All us . perfect balance , poise , and rhythm do the Beauty of motion , perfect poise and control , it is Thoughts of the study are not so good as thoughts these things are the supreme beauty ; music or the walking in the open - air . Thoughts that come with . rhythm of poetry , rippling comedy dialogue or lightning motor - cars and with galloping , sure - footed horses are flash of revealing tragedy , these are accessory to and finer still . But now we are obsessed in the drama and secondary to the vividness of motion . Only in an age in literature with thoughts of the study because we of trousers and top hats , corsets and walking skirts , is have not yet developed the art of dancing , which it possible to elevate the drawing - room comedy or would enable us to give thoughts of more rapid flowing drama to - day to national importance . Maud Allan will blood expression . help to dance these uglinesses out of existence , as Shaw and Ibsen help to fight them out of existence , as every thing real and beautiful must push them out of exist Maud . Allan dancing is exquisite ; she is the wonder and sacredness of the body , defying all the devils of the Churches ; not happiness , or satisfaction , or pleasure , but joy and delight . Dancing with most of us is so much a matter of leg motion in heated rooms , varied by visits to the refresh ment - room for ices and claret cup , as to make it almost necessary to coin a new word for dancing like this at the Palace . Maud Allan's dances are a series of rhythmically modulated postures in which the arms play almost more part than the rest of the body . In the first dance , to a valse of Chopin , the arms move in , a wonderful series of waves , in the second , a " Spring Song " of Mendelssohn , the whole body and the face ripple with the music in a wholly indescribable manner . One is always told of Eastern dances beautiful past description , one has got hints here and there of dances in the surf of the South Sea Islands in which the joy of life finds unchecked expression . I have seen fan tastic ' gnome - like measures of the Bushmen in South Africa , and seen the Kaffir , modifications of their fan tasy , but these are the primitive things of primitive folk , ' The movement is monotonous ; there is no art and little self - expression . I suspect very much the same of the dances of the East and the South Seas . with all of us movement is so obviously the foremost means of inter - communication as to make it more necessary for us to have fully developed this art than for simpler peoples . We have more to express , \ Veer need , therefore , more ways of saying it . And yet

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