Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1910s 1

Added 18th Mar 2022 by Beth Dobson (Archives and Programming Assistant, DCD) / Last update 18th Mar 2022

Maud Allan 417 51 2008-1-30.jpg
Maud Allan 417 51 2008-1-30.jpg
(No description added)

Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1910s 1

Discover Placeholder
Description
The description of this Item
Collections
The collections that this item appears in.
Maud Allan Research Collection
Tags
Tag descriptions added by humans
Identified Objects
Description of the objects in this Item

Auto-generated content

Auto Tags
Tag descriptions added automatically
text letter photo
Auto Objects
Auto-generated identification of objects in this Item
Auto Description
An autogenerated description of this Item
Text, letter
Face count
Auto-generated number of faces in the Item
0
Accession Number
DCD's accession number for this Item. It is the unique identifier.
51.2008-1-30
Original Filename
Extracted text
TO WN TALK 25 identity ! Maud Allan's Dancing 190 San Francico A Confession of Disappointment with a Few Discursive Impressions Received from the First Local Exhibition 2 of a New Art Form ( So - Called ) By Edward F. O'Day Until we see Miss Isadora Duncan and are enabled to ridiculous remains . I found myself listening to the make comparisons it will be impossible to say whether beautiful music of Mr. Steindorff's symphony Orchestra Miss Maud Allan is a great exponent of the new theories and vaguely resenting the distraction of Miss Allan's of so - called classic dancing . Miss Allan is the first capers . She gave at best a superficial interpretation , dancer of the kind who has exhibited her powers in this an illumination of the obvious motives ; her dartings and city and we have nothing to measure her against . So twistings never reached the soul of the divine harmonies all that we can do at the present time is to record the of Chopin , Grieg and Strauss . In the Spring Song and impression which her dancing makes on our unaccus- the Rubinstein Valse Miss Allan was closer to the mean tomed minds . To me it all seemed rather absurd . I ing of the music , no doubt because the meaning is not do not think that I am burdened with an overzealous too far beneath the surface . But in the rest of her of sense of humor , yet I could not help smiling at the ferings it was difficult to trace the connection between spectacle which Miss Allan presented . Certainly I have dance and music . She reminded me of a very immature never found a marble or a painted nude ridiculous ; I nymph jumping and running in considerable excitement have felt no disposition to grin in the presence of the because she heard music and liked it . A very kittenish Venus de Medici or the Venus of Velasquez . But to immature nymph she was , whether she danced to the see a young lady capering about the stage in a scanty music of Anitra or the voluptuous strains of the Danube garment which revealed her breast , her arms and her Waltz . Tolerable familiarity with Ibsen and Grieg con legs somehow or other excited my risibility . When Miss vinces me that Anitra would not have been carried Allan appears in public in undress she exposes herself away by Peer if she had danced the way Miss Allan to criticism of a rather intimate kind . Let me say danced . He would have sent her to her mama . Miss frankly that I think her feet too large to be beautiful- Allan's interpretation of Asa's Death is gratuitous ; it and too flat . In the mind's eye a nymph at play in Ar- has nothing to do with Grieg or Ibsen . so far as I could cady is a beautiful object , but in the flesh ' tis another make out ; and as for the Dance of the Gnomes , it seemed matter . We are far off from Arcady nowadays , it must to me a senseless , graceless series of contortions , par be regretfully admitted , and we are rather critical of ticularly laughable . I must confess that if Miss Allan our nymphs . Perhaps too we expect too much pul- is a fair representative of the school I am disappointed chritude of them , having made their acquaintance chiefly in the classic dancing . It is not inspiring , it is not in in the works of the masters . Miss Allan is a pretty- terpretative ; it tells nothing which a rudimentary musi faced nymph with a sweet smile , but she is not bounti- cal sense could not extract from the music and it leaves fully dowered with beauty of form . A woman is apt to all the best of the music's meaning where it must ever look ridiculous when she bares her legs ; that of course , remain , in the soul of the listener . If Miss Allan helped and not any consideration of modesty , is why she wears to attune the listener's soul to the soul of the composer stockings at the seaside . In Miss Allan this aptitude is and of the player , she would be accomplishing a great heightened by the cavortings -- the word will out - in deal , but I fail to see that she does anything of the kind . which she indulges . If her dances were a series of To the seeker for amusement she is a novelty , of course ; stately movements executed on tiptoe , the effect would but to the music - lover she is a distraction . As for the be less unfortunate ; but to see her gyrating wildly with much - discussed morality or immorality of her dances , uplifted leg or prancing downstage in bewildering and ' tis a subject which would hardly occur to the primmest quite unnecessary haste , is to lose the illusion of grace- puritan spinster watching her . The suggestion con ful dancing . The wherefore of it all is rather hard to veyed by her undraped figure to the ordinary observer , find . At moments there are suggestions of poetical in- I repeat . is the suggestion of kittenish immaturity un terpretation , but the moments pass and the sense of the necessarily exposed to the cold .