Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1900s 2

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Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1900s 2

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/ Dancing is Only an Expression of Life Miss Maud Allan , the Canadian Girl , Speaks of Her Work and Says There are Many who Wilfully Misconstrue her Innocent Salome Dance - How she Regards her work and the Methods That she Adopts . M ISS MAUD ALLAN , the Canadia1 ing - room , nor the pirouetting on one toe girl who has created such a sen- of an Austrian ballerina . Such dancing sation in London by her marvel- as that is not the expression of an im lpus dancing and is expected to appear mortal soul stirred by all the mystery of in New York this month , in speaking of existence , tortured , as was Salome's soul her work in a recent interview , says : by the tragedy of her sin . Dancing is " My dancing is , as it were a continua- only an expression of life . People to tion from where the ancient Greeks left day never appear to me to possess the off and by combining our modern music idea of what life really is . It isn't giving I with their movements I attempt to put way to the desires of the flesh ; it means into the rhythm of the dance something being one's own controller , influenced of the thought of to - day . You see , my only by the very few . And to so influence dances depend entirely on the music , people for their good is the only true and just as the arches and the columns kingship . I would sooner be the power I of a great temple vibrate to the chords behind the throne than the king upon it . of the organ , so does my soul vibrate to " But do you know what was the most the music of my dances . I know noth- exciting dance I ever danced ? One morn ing of the technique of dancing , and the ing , long ago , I climbed a fence , and arts of the coryphee mean nothing to jumped down into a little hollow beneath . me . I have sought all my attitudes and I heard a loud hissing , and , looking down , movements in the art galleries of Europe , I saw a huge ' rattler ' darting at me . I on Etruscan vases and Assyrian tablets , gave a scream , and then realized that I and I have modelled my motions on their was standing upon its mate . For the mo crude perspectives . ment I was paralyzed , and then I started " And I feel somehow that Salome was to run ; another snake , and another snake , as unstudied and as untaught as I. She and another snake sprang up . I realized had seen her women dance perhaps , and at last that I was in their breeding place , she must often have stopped to look at and in another moment I saw I was sur the old Assyrian tablets as I have done , rounded by literally a hundred of them . and unconsciously incorporated their pic- I danced here , I dodged there , and I ran tures in her dramatic interpretation of the whole time with the brutes in full the tragedy of the moment when she pursuit ; but I flew faster than they , and danced before King Herod . She danced at last a little stream crossed the wood , by instinct , for dancing , however conven- and I dashed across it , and they could fol tional it may become , is in its essence a low me no farther . Yes , my most ex thing of instinct . And a tribe in savage citing dance was in that Californian forest Africa would display the same motions of long , long ago . " And then , with a quaint fear , of joy , or sorrow , as we ourselves . turn of her fexible mind , she added : Dances express emotions and these " But not even their venom can equal that dances are neither the swaying to and of the venom of those who wilfully mis fro to a valse measure in a London draw- construe my innocent Salome dance . " 78 Busy BUSY MAN'S MAGAZINE OCT 1908 P 78-79