Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1910s 2

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Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1910s 2

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XY8 x . ma At the second of Miss Allan's matinees , MAUD ALLAN denly upon the very soul of art , na ked only a handful of spectators were sprink Among the great reminders of that and unashamed and unutterably beauti- led through the auditorium ; and , at that glory which have come to us in recent very moment , a mob of people were years , the best must be recorded to the Beautiful Blue Danube , " like the pre Miss Allan's interpretation of “ The stepping on each other's toes in the effort to buy tickets , just around the corner , credit of America ; for it was an Amer ican artist Isadora Duncan -- who first vious interpretation by Miss Duncan for " A Daughter of the Gods . ” Can it recreated the Greek art of the dance and is open to a logical exception . This be that the public would rather see a liberated the most quintessential of the composition by Johann Strauss - to state moving - picture of a beautiful woman arts from the trappings and the suits of the simple fact a little crudely - is the than see a beautiful woman actually those artifices which long had overlaid best of all the dance - tunes of the world . making moving pictures all around the it in all the European countries . The But , to the present writer at least , it has stage ? The enigma is dificult 10 solve . ballet had become in Italy and France always suggested a brilliant ball room , But one experience resulted from a visit mere acrobatic exercise of standing all glittering with glass and gold , alive to Miss Allan's sparsely - attended mat When the writer stepped forth with many men in gorgeous uniforms inee . on the toes and twirling in a ruffle of from the dream - world in which he had twirling gaily round about with many fiuffy drapery dependent from the hips until Aliss Duncan , by going back to the women clad in swocping skirts . In the been entranced into the noisy world of Greeks , went back to nature , and made very air of this music there is something Times Square , with its inconsiderable the art of dancing once again a living , absolutely urban and indoors . The futter , he felt suddenly ashamed of New pulsing sister to the still , cold art of theme is not " the beautiful blue Dan- York . And to be ashamed , now and then , sculpture . ube " -which , in actuality , is nothing of all that makes our daily lives unlovely another American artist - Maud Allan but a stream of brownish mud - it is , and untrue is a salutary feeling . --though not a pupil of Miss Duncan's , liant , magnificent , and courtly . instead , imperial Vienna , artificial , bril must be written down as one of her dis Niss ciples The technique of Miss Allan's Allan , to this music , represents a fable dancing has improved remarkably in of a water - nymph awakened from some recent years ; and low , at the height of sylvan spring and streaming fluently her career , she excels her predecessor , if about the stage as if in gladness at the hut in art , at least in the retention of a greatness of a river . Her dance is lovely and beauty necessary youth in itself ; but it is not the dance inspired Miss Duncan can still dance with her mind ; in the mind of Johann Strauss . but the body of Vliss Allan -- by the Miss Allan , in her present program , accident of time has become a finer includes a dance - play in one act , entitled medium for art . " Nair , the Slave . This pantomime , The essence of all art is rhythm ; for devised by Pietro Boldrini , with music art is the expression of ideas in terms of by Enrico Belpacci , may be described as : truth and beauty , and the only ideas that and sort of distant echo of the Russian ballet of ** Scheherazade . In “ Nair , the are really worthy of expression are hints Slave , " it is the fair female who kills the at the eternal harmony of the intricately shorthmic universe . Thus , for the sheer oriental prince , instead of the oriental expression of the very soul of art , the prince who kills the lovely slave ; but otherwise the two fables run very nearly Jante comes first among the media that ate wailable , with music second , and parallel . The scenery and costumes , de porta laluing third . This was known signed by Kemp Prosser of London , are colorful and beautiful . Luthe Greeks , who knew alt on earth we pued to hnow ; and all their art was built Viss Allan was assisted in her PCI about the dance , as its central and es formance by a symphony orchestra con ducted by Ernest Bloch , a Swiss composer sential point of focus . Now that Viss Allan , after many who has earned a considerable reputation on the other side of the Atlantic . This Vous of practise , has become a great orchestra made music to the ear which Juicer , it has become a privilege to see was just as beautiful as that other music her . ller interpretation , in terms of which Miss Allan made vivid to the eye . bodily movement , of the Peer Gynt suite of Edward Grieg , is , for instance , charm Yet perhaps the least forgettable of all the incidents of an unusually lovely ingly imagined and exquisitely true . To afternoon was the eloquence of the arnis see her show , to eyes that wonder , the awakenin of morning or the death of of the dancer , -- the way in which a be , is to enjoy the thrill of looking sud spiritual impulse seemed to drift through fiuent wrists to hands that laid a finger on the soul .

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