Felix Cherniavsky - Correspondence with Dance Collection Danse 2

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Felix Cherniavsky - Correspondence with Dance Collection Danse 2

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8919 146th Street , Edmonton AB T5R OV7 Harold Love Reader in English Monash University Wellington Road , Clayton Victoria 168 AUSTRALIA . Dear Professor Love A few days ago I received the April 1993 issue of the ADS , containing your discussion of The Salome Dancer . I so appreciate your comments , fair minded and informed as they are , that I want to thank you for them . Upon receipt of your review in ADS , I contacted Laurence Adams of Dance Collection , Toronto . He will be sending you a review copy of Did She Dance , about which I wrote to Joel Crotty ( surely one of your Graduate students ) earlier this month . McClelland and Stewart certainly did me no service in omitting any reference ( despite my written request ) to Did She Dance on the back of The Salome Dancer ; you are the third scholar to point out this apparent weakness . It was my deliberate intention in Did She Dance to outline , as you put it , " technical descriptions of Allan's creations " for dance scholars to explore . I have no ' dance ' background , in part at least because I am 6'6 " ! 1 a Your point about Maud's " claim of Greek vase - painting as a source of her style , " is well taken . The best I can do is enclose photo copies of Maud Allan and Her Art ( London 1908 ) included in her " personal papers . " To judge by the scribbled comments on this pamphlet , it appears that sometime in the thirties there was some attempt to prepare a revised edition . If unknown to you , these illustrations might be of some since I assume they were originally selected by Maud herself . The ' statuettes ' were probably by Jacob Epstein . Your comment on the significance of The Salome Dance in Maud's " psyche " is extremely incisive ; as an alternative interpretation , I only wish I had seen it myself ! While I agree that she was " certainly capable of detachment " in my view that " detachment " might also be seen as symptomatic of her essential duality , such as her brother Theo indisputably suffered from .