Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1910s 1

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Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1910s 1

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1 910 a New York Debut- reviewed in Musical America ( January 20 2 an extremely strking and unforgettable personality as a dancer , having a conception of motion which , except tk in so far as all dancing must be based on fundamental natural principles , is distinctly her own . As regards grace in itself , she leaves little to be said . She has renedered grace to its last subtleties , to the point wjhere , at moments , it is almost uncanny . Particularly remarakable are her slow movements in which she makes extraordinary use of her arms . The Melody in F of Rubinstein with which she began her progtam exemplified this . Her arms and hands move and turn through the air through some denser medium as ribbons seaweed move beeneath the surface atxtoxxti xxx of a slow tide . Just as far as she succeeds un the conscious exhibition of subtle and alluring grace , ' so far she fails in the expression of naive and sponmtaneous happiness . She is a kind of latter day nymph . In everything she does - and she is never for an instant without beauty- there dwells the spirit of something exotic . This exists not only in her dance , but persists as well in her 2x manner of leaving the stage at the close of each dance and in maaking her bow to the audience . Miss Allan dances in dare feet . She makes much of facial expression , and also makes a point of closing each dance with a pose . whioch she holds in the manner in which the dramatic scene in the curtain calls are made continuous with the action of the drama . Erdic - Performance 4 General Performance r movement " | Costume 5 The subtle and sudden changes in the music of the Chopin Mazurkas ( G sharp minor , Op.33 ; B flat major op.37 ) were no more delicate than Miss Allan's appreciation and representation of them in the dance . The " Spring Song " with its moments of pickingh flowers , was artifcularly charming . In the Rubinstein Miss Allan wore a long labender drapery and shorter , buff colored one for the other numbers inmthis group The Peer Gynt Suite revealed Miss Allan's grat power of characterization , The gentle pastoral pipes of the " Rastexaxxx " Morning " she gave with charming grace . Anitra's Danee " breathed bizarre vivacity in every motion . " Tjhe Trolltanz " was wholly extraordinary . As the whirl of this dance became mopre rapid Miss Allan's arms appeared like writhing and twisting snakes . and it seemed as if she had about 20 if them ) . At At the end she falls prostrate This dance calls for tremendous physcal exertion , but Miss Allan nevertheless repoeated it , as well as the preceding one . Hopelo 06