Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1900s 2

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Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1900s 2

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NY Times ang 19 1908 P.7 : 3 LWADORA DUNCAN IN GRECIAN DANCES MUCH SPIRIT AND POETRY porta by the reashore anche costume was When the curtain went up last night after an augmented orchestra had played some of the Gluck music , the audience saw a stage set only with dull gray drap erles . Miss Duncan started with a handi cap . The audience saw a woman who at first glance did not appcar overly at tractive , apparently in bare feet , and clad in loose gray robe . The dance , one of litt skipping steps and supplicating arm postures with a constant play of happy teature and side to side head Reappears After Ten Years ' Abo movement slowly assumed the familiar poses of the dance known to us through sence and Delights Audi- . Grecian antiquities . Miss Duncan had interested her audience at once . Still sho ence at the Criterion . was not as yet in its mind graceful . The buccession of postures was too rugged . Grace , however , was added in the second dance , which represented the maidens of playing at ball perhaps a little the shoulders . It still came to the seem . ingly bare ankles . The dance as the im aginary -ball was tossed in the air and Miss Duncan Was the Dancing Teacher caught was graceful , but the gestures of the dancer as she half reclined and tossed Who Marched Her Class In Safety and caught the knuckle bones removed entirely the audience's first impression . from Windsor Hotel Fire . Then the costume became shorter . There was a dance of the maidens ( repre sented alone by Miss Duncan ) as they saw the Greek fleet in the distance and Isadora Duncan , who was last known anoçed for joy . All five movements ot In New York as the dancing teacher who this dance expressed Joy , but the air gai marched her class in good order from the final movement seemed to catch at Its tempo for the the ballroom of the burning Hotel Wind- first time was quick and whirlingly Joy scr , nearly ten years ago , returned to ous . The audience thought with a smile w York last night at the Criterion of a cake walk , but 11 çake walk it was It was a sublimated cake walk . Then atre as a dancer of classical dances . there was a gay little dance in abbrevi Since the day of the Windsor fire Miss nted red costume in which seemingly bare Duncan has traveled far . She has studied limbs flashed out . Choer des Pretesses . " followed by a clothed slower atmospheric the poses of Grecian dancers on vases and aftermath . the relics of antiquity , and has repro ** Danses des Scythes " was a rhythm duced these in a creative harmony of of motion . whose theme was manifestly reaping . After Musette , Sicilienne , and succession , building up from the separate Bacchanale , dances of life and movement poses a series of dances . With these in which flowers played a part , Miss Dun dances she has boen seen in the great Eu . can . In response to the demands of her audience , danced her interpretations of ropean cities . Schubert's “ Musleal Moment and the Last night's audience testified , through Strauss waltz , Blue Danube , applause and cries of " Bravo ! " that , so cores . These were the lighter parts of far as it was concerned , Miss Duncan's Spanish dance . Miss Duncan's store . She even added a engagement here shall be as successful as ' In Miss Duncan's dancing there is the her European appearances . spirit and poetry of things suggested . Miss Duncan chose as the medium of the artiste . There 1 no hint of tho personality of Nelther is there tone of her American debut the dances and beneuous or sensual . The dancer's cog choruses from Gluck's opera , " Iphigenle tumes appear merely a background for her art . en Aulide , " ( 1774. ) which follows the story l attention upon them to the exclusion of The audience never centres its of the daughter of ' Agamemnon and the dance's theme . Clytemnestra after the manner of Euripl- the wrong dance twice , put Miss Duncan Last night the orchestra , by beginning des's play , known in tho English transla- from poised flight to immobility , but by a tions as “ Iphigenia at Aulis . " Artemis suggestion as elusive in analysis of means Aaving been offended , the Greek fleet is employed as any she conveyed during the detained at Aulis . Calchas , the soer , de evening . she get them right . The effect of the orchestral feature was clares that the goddess can be appeased heightened at times during the overtures , only through the sacrifice of Iphigenia . when the darrer changed her costume , by At the last moment Artemis relents and who wag seated with the orchestra . In the addition of the low voice of a woman substitutes a hind in the sacrifica . Iphi- all . Miss Duncan danred nearly an hour genia is carried by Artemis to Tauris that and a quarter , counting the time when tho may become the priestess of Artemis . stage was bare and the orchestra was playing . 44 as en

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