Felix Cherniavsky - Maud Allan Australia Tour 1914

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Felix Cherniavsky - Maud Allan Australia Tour 1914

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- 2 - Monday , May 4 , 1914 THE GREATEST EVENT OF THE YEAR POSITIVELY TWO NIGHTS ONLY COMMENCING Tonight ( MONDAY ) Tonight First Appearance Here of One of the World's Most Famous Artists . MAUD ALLAN Most Wonderful of Dancers Dreamers and lovers of Beauty will find much to thank Maud Allan for in a world that is somewhat overflowing with the commonplace and obvious . Dominion . London Daily Mail : In Miss Allan all the noblest arts , the music of the Masters , the rhythm of imaginary poems , the triumph of Greek sculpture , and of Botticelli's brush , are expressed or suggested in the measured movements of a perfectly - shaped body . Maud Allan has appeared before : HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE V HER MAJESTY QUEEN MARY HER MAJESTY QUEEN ALEXANDRA HIS LATE MAJESTY KING EDWARD And all the nobility of Great Britain . TONIGHT at 8 TONIGHT MAUD ALLAN and THE CHERNIAVSKY TRIO LEO JAN MIS CHEL Violinist Pianist Cellist Tuesday , May 5 , 1914 Maud Allan and the Cherniavskys . There was a large audience at the Opera House last evening to welcome Miss Allan , the classic dancer , who gives stage pictures of the emotions and spirits which moved Chopin , Wagner , Greig and such Masters to compose what they have . Miss Allan's art is the poetry of motion : in inspirat ion and execution she is as diferent from Genee as could well be . Both , admittedly are great artistes , but one is a dancer , the other a poser . It may be that neither Genee nor Miss Allan will ever be understood , except by a few , but Miss Allan's art must appeal to those who have the least susceptibility to the charm of great music , and great music is the music of the moods and the emotions . Her dancing is a revelation in the poetry of movement . It is at once charmingly simple and yet infinitely subtle and elusive . In wonderfully effective clinging draperies she dances bare - footed in a half - light on a green carpet against a dark green curtain background , a stage setting admirably harmonious with the performance . Many people had no conception of what they were going to see . There was an entire absence of the pirouettings and feats on tip - toe so essentially characteristic of the ballet . Miss Allan scarcely affects the consciousness of her audience , and this is one of the charms of her work . The grace of the artist herself is entirely striking . Her swaying , the undulations of her form , the posture of the limbs , and , above all , perhaps , the use of the arms , wrists and hands are remarkable in their expressiveness . Miss Allan made her first appearance in Schubert's beautiful song ' Am Meer ' ( ' By the Sea ' ) . The s trains of the music are heard coming from the orchestra , the crouched figure of Miss Allan rises from the centre of the stage , and spreads forth her arms . As she moves , one is amazed at the motion of her hands and feet , and the rest of her limbs with her body . All are in perfect harmony , perfect grace and beauty . A feature of the dancer's treatment

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