Felix Cherniavsky - Contextual Research

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Felix Cherniavsky - Contextual Research

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Editonas NY Times ? augs 1909 6 : 3 THREE KINDS OF DANCING . Writing alrily of the Poetry of the Danco in Mundoy's Magazino for Au gust , Prof. BRANDER MATTHWs de . scribes the dancing the New York pub . Hic is accustomed to seo as graceful , ungraceful , and disgraceful . But he is convinced that the graceful is the rule rather than the exception in this happy day and generation , the muse Terpsi chore , whom the Greek ot old assigned to look after the dance , attending far more strictly to business than her sister muses of Tragedy and Comedy , if they are to be held responsible for the plays of the present time . Most of these , he thinks , are evidently sadly lacking in Inspiration . As for the dance , he does not think there has ever been a time . when so many different varieties have been on exhibition before , the American people . Prol . MATTHEWS 1s enthusiastic over the folk - dances glven by tho children of the public schools at Van Cortlandt Park some months ago , calling them an example of the kind of dancing wuch cannot help being " graceful , while ' , many of the professional exhibitions at the same time were specimens of the kind which he thinks may fairly be de scribed as ungraceful oven if not actu ally to be dismissed as disgraceful . While the folk - dances the children fi the heart with a puro dellght , ho says , one could not soe tho sorry sped tacle afforded by some of the profes sionals without a certain loss of self respect . Prof. MATTHEWS is warm , however , in his praise of several of the dancers recently brought to New York by the atre managers , saying of one young woman who appeared two seasons ago : “ Nothing more beautiful than her dancing has ever been seen on the American stage . " He commends also the theatre manager who arranged pleasing ballets even in the absence of accomplished dancers , ' an absence he explains on the ground that dancing is the most arduous of all the arts , and its technique the most difficult to acquire . The dancer who would master this art must begin early in her teens , never relaxing her training , severe as it must be , even for a single day . It is little wonder then , Prof. MATTHEWs declareg , that but one great dancer is produced in a quarter of a century .