Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1910s 2

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Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1910s 2

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NYU liss Maud Allan who has been appearing at the Forty - Fourth Street Theatre , is billed as " the famous symphonic dancer " . " Years ago when she was on the crest of her popularity in England , and newe paper controversy raged , I saw her in London , and was dreadfully bored . I thought that time night per chance have tempered her som called " symphonic " moods , but soon found that this was not the case . Miss Allan , who is most assuredly graceful , still wiggles her hands , and her neck , and capers about the stage to the melodies of Chopin , Mendelssohn , Schubert , and others not associated with that form of entertainment . On her lárst programmno she was seen in eight Russian affairs -- all to my mind , exaxtly similar . She stood in the centre of the stage , and swayed , and writhed , and waggled , and posed , and looked aoulful . At firat it was interesting ; then it grew monotonous , and deadly , and when at last she was released they say of the movies - a few ous breathed sighs of relier . I wonder what Miss Allan would do , if she suffered from a stiff neck . She certainly would never be able to dance . The novelty of her programme was a " love tragedy of the Orient " entitled " wair , the Slave " . This must have neant a good deal for it had several characters , and accessories , but the meaning was veiled and I never discovered it . What the significance of " Nair was , I do not know I can only eay that it was dull , and narcotic . there may still be people who admire the sort of " danoc " perfected by Maud Allan , Isadora Duncan , and Lady Constance Richardson . I am not among them . In the dance , I prefer abandon , novellent , end intoxication . The nearest Miss Allan came to that was when she swayed to the music of Schubert's " Moment Musical " and then she was 80 charming , that it seemed a pity she did not attempt more of that 111 . However , Plan Dale Gel 28 1946 Maud Allan . With an'elaboracions de pantomime after the Russian model as the climax of a programme to which the allied arts of music and dancing contributed almost equally , Maud Allan appeared yesterday in the first of a series of four afternoon performances at the Forty - fourth Street Theatre . The ballet , called " Nair , the Slave . " is an Oriental episode of Arabian Nights ' flavor . The settings extraordi narily good and effective , is a great pa vilion , through the open flad of which the desert is visible beyond . The action is of the sort to which the Russians have accustomed us , and concerns a beautiful Circassian offered for sale to a Prince of the East . Miss Allan's dancing in this scene compares not unfavorably with all but the best that the Russians do , the young women who assist her as , subsid iary slaves are graceful and picturesque , and the costume color effects are admir able . But the ballet as a whole lacks something of the coördination and con centration of effect which is characteris tic of the Russians ' work . The music for the scenario ( which is by Pietro Boldini ) is by Enrico Belpassi . Lacking in the power and sweep of the Russian music upon which the ballet makerš usually levy , it is perarthelers not Il sriapted to Miss Allan returns to this country after an interval of four years , during ! which she has danced around the world , and during which also the vogue of the barefoot Terpsichore ( whom she and Isa dora Duncan turned . Ioose upon an easily startled world ) has run wild . She has not like Miss Duncan , lost her lithe figure ; her grace and beauty re main , and though her movements seem at times too studied , though she lacks a certain lightness , in old favorites like Mendelssohn's " Springtime " she was en tirely charming - lesg so , perhaps , in a series of eight preludes from Chopin . Such a series , in fact , puts a strain upon the art of " interpretive " dancing under which that art must visibly stagger . It may be noted that Miss Allan's dancing has tended more and more to be done with her arms . That part of it is , Indeed , beautifully done -- but the footing of it has suffered in consequences The contributions to the programme by Miss Illan's Symphony Orchestra , under the conductorship of Ernest Bloch , were extremely interesting - especially a series of eight popular Russian songs by Laid low - a series in the strains of whirh were to be discovered characteristic motifs of the now quite familiar music of " Cleo patre " and " Thamar . " The orchestra play . ed also a suite of Debussy and " Hiver Printemps . " an interesting composition of the conductor . Mr. Bioch , who is a Swiss musician well known abroad and the au thor of an opera ( " Macbeth " ) which has been performed at the Opera Comique in Paris , wielded his bâton with ability and distinction , and the work of the orchestra was highly creditable bed 12,1916 . C ( From Dance Collection Newspaper Files ,

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