Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1910s 2

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Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1910s 2

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Mand Allan Reviewed salinday night octra 1916 I One Were In addition Russia began to send forth fror het uers to western Europe and America , a great galaxy T can hardly be denied that Maud of marvellously expert dancers train . Allan disappointed most of those led in all modes , so that the audiences who saw her dance last week for of to - day are in a much better posi reasons not entirely within her con . make comparisons , and to The truth is that " interpretat- maintain a critical interest in the art tive dancing so - called , of which she than they were ten years ago . was one of the originators , has proven For her services in lifting dancing se as an accomplishment to young to a higher level of artistic interest women , that it has become in some and refinement Miss Allan deserves degree commonplace ; even when given very high praise ; but it can hardly aesthetic investiture Bad be denied that in comparison with the splendid musical support Pven the artistry of such a woman as Pavlowa display of the lowland has and the coterie of skilled artists she leased to be a novelty , and the aver carried with her mot to mention the ase atdience visit without emo ther Russian balets who have fol . tion Sennar eight years every lowed in her lootsteps -- interpretative Carradian who yeturned from a visit dancing even by such a pioneer as to London rated about Jaud Allan's Miss Allan seems amateurish . beauty and oneinality . To - day classes mitting that comparisons are odious als notable in A # Death " from in all the ladies ' colleges are dom one must contess that it is like the the same thing and interpretative efforts of an ambitious beginner who , the " Peer Gynt " saite , ihaugh her dancing is a feature not merely of having a fine color gense ; tries to renderins contes no suggestion of the without learning to scene Ihn's drame of which this many a vandeville bill , but of amately paint pictures daa wing room entertainment also draw was the incidental music . In Anitra ' To explain the early Tugue of this in Toronto we were not favored with Danhe departe still more widely from Canadian dancer it must be rule the sensational and realistie " Salome ' the composers Idea , who dem . Hered that she came to prominence dance on which Miss Allan's fame stened this as an oriental form to be danded in the oriental way . In her just at the inerption of the dern was largely based , but her program harus losed most of its languorous revival interest mes opportunits and secus effect Since she pos . recognition of dancing sne of the of piration umoubtedly familiar concert numbers by the great sesses a genuinely dramatic person regrettable that added mneh delight to the theatre in composers . Insone numbers her scenario of the dance playNair the the past decades When she danced conceptions spontaneous and slave " protes so insipid . in London in 1997 the old classic tale charming , but the seneral effect was The music lets had fallen in disuse the com one of monotony . One has of Entien Belpassi is melodious and expeeted colorful partieularly in the little love bination of beautiful music with the a greater fluency in the use of gesture of Terpsichore has almost and the dancersemed inclined 10 song composed to illustrate the seduc . tions are of the minor characters known Isadura Duncan did much overdo the business ofacial expres . but the whole effert was tame . toward the revital by reviving a form sion . Her interpretation of Siendels of dancing taset sohn's " Spring Song is world famous Thorchestra which supported Mike pases copied from the pa amd friezes of ancient and has been widely imitated . Dis Allan was of admirable quality , and in Greece was a delight te vatch the rhythmical Vaud Clian , then a musical playing as it does the symmetrical conducting of its director , the rising student in Vienna in 1903. conceived beauty of her forin it seemed the idea of harmonize #ith the musical phrases Frenshomposer Ernest Bloch . Like interpreting the more popular melodies of the great com delightfully . So also did her render most prenehanductors , he aims a pors by rhythmical movements of the ins of the Valse Caprice of Rubin extreme delicacy of effect , but the body intended to convey what she stein , in which the contrast of deep playing of the orchestra was rich in expression at all times . His x tone conceived to be the spirit of the com orange draperies with fair white flesh She had enjoyed no long made a beautiful picture . Vost ap poem , " Hiver brintomis , " is typical of the modern French school in apprenticeship in the actual art of pealink was the pare rhythmiel Joy dreamy sugestiveness . and in dancins such as great dancers like of her rendering of the Blue Danube na Pavlowa and Sielaida Genee False But taking them together latter Hart notable for its ravishin served from early childhood . these interpretations harmonies . In two of his programme . all very She he also rendered the was onrestrained by the classic con much alike . Overture ventions of the dance and the fresh Hi Allan is also skilled in tragie " Leonore No. 11 of Beethoven with ness and novelty of effect the best other efforts of this exquisite refinement and significance her methods ner will will one soon forget his beau together with the fact that the time kond being the " Valse Triste of tiful interpretation of the Sibelius . This beautiful composition was ripe for a universal re - birth of " Petit written to a detinite dramatic | however , that the delightful playing Suite " of Debussy . It is to be feared . interest in dancing , tremendous vogue . This rogue called programme It depicts the delirium of the orchestra was last on audiences forth a horde - of imitators who have of a dying woman who has led most of whom had come to be stimu taken the bloom off fruit joyeus south and who in her last lated by sensational dancing , and momentarises from her couch and were disappointed . whirls with the ghostly daneers of her vixion until stricken by death . Though Miss Allan does net use the prescribed scenario deqised for stage perform by the author , brother - in - law of the Finnish com . poser , she does convey the idea of a distra Tiuning into bexand . a very polenant way ability to obtain a tragic feet 71 Wete save V 22 Oct 14 R16 Saturda , kishin & Ice WS