Felix Cherniavsky - Correspondence with Dance Collection Danse 2

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Edmonton Journal Sun Aug 9/31 Flamboyant dancer's life revisited E nonton author captures Edwardian decadence of Canada's Maud Allan ROSA JACKSON Edmonton a Felix Cherniavsky suspects he probably wouldn't have liked dancer Maud Allan . But that hasn't stopped him from writing a book on the flam boyant figure who was be friended in 1908 by future British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith , toured five continents from 1910 to 1923 , and died penniless in the United States at the age of 84 . Known as the Salome Dancer for her most famous number , The Vision of Salome , Allan hypno tized the masses during the Edwardian era . Now the dancer has captivated the Edmonton university lecturer , whose uncle Leo fell under her spell when he was a member of the famous Cherniavsky trio with whom she toured . His new book , The Sa lome Dancer ( McClelland & Stewart , 308 pp . , $ 19.95 paper ) , is the first complete biography of this “ musical genius and patho log : liar . " Crniavsky describes Allan as a charming yet manipulative woman , shaped by family trage dy . " The public never knew any thing about her private life . She appeared to be a model of good taste , discretion and _virginity . But anyone she could take advan tage of , she was after . " I feel as if I know her , " he adds . “ However , I think I would last about five minutes in her presence . " The Toronto - born Allan first trained as a pianist , in San Fran- Maud Allan in 1926 studio pose Ed Kaiser The Journal cisco and then at the Royal Felix Cherniavsky displays part of Maud Allan's Salome Dancer Academy of Music in Berlin . Fol- dalized that her toenails were costume lowing her brother Theo Dur- exposed and painted . Behind that rant's 1898 execution for what screen of virginity was a deca . Since its publication , a British success and notoriety had became known as “ The Crime of dent individual . Maud Allan was the Century " the bodies of two really the last of the Decadents ( a est in the story of Theo's famous “ It's a question that will never be film - maker has expressed inter- her brother not been executed . young women had been discov- movement of which Oscar Wilde trial . answered , ” says Cherniavsky . " It ered in a San Francisco cathe dral in mid - April of 1885 was a member ) . " Cherniavsky is currently writ- certainly did poison her personal Maud stopped playing the piano Offstage , Maud carried ity . ” on ing a second book which focuses in public and began to express affairs with Edward VII and entirely on Theo's story . “ It has Eighty years after her triumph herself in movement . fellow musicians , including Leo everything , ” he says . “ Sex , crime , has been largely forgotten – per in London , Maud Allan's name Cherniavsky . Maud's correspon- maladministration of justice . Her premiere as a dancer took dence with Leo formed much of Theo was obviously insane and haps because her unique style place in 1903 at the Theatre Hall shouldn't have been executed . He was inimitable . But Cherniavsky of Vienna's Conservatory of Mu- the basis for The Salome Dancer . sic : also billed that night were The biography began as was a gentle , brave prisoner who says his intent in writing this book wasn't to restore her fame . da rs Ruth St. Denis and Mata series of articles for DanceMaga- was obsessed by his mother . ” “ My purpose was to make H. , 1 . Five years later , at age 35 , zine . But the drama of Allan's life Maud's feelings for her mother money , ” he quips , then adds , “ I Allan's career reached a pinnacle convinced the Edmonton author were equally strong , according to think it's a good story . She was when she performed The Vision that her family's story would Cherniavsky . “ The only person to an extraordinary woman . There's . of Salome at London's Palace make a fascinating book , and an whom she was never unkind was no question she was far more Theatre . even more fascinating film . He her mother . " educated , far more musical , than Allan's performances were con- received funding from the Ca A question that arises with The Isadora Duncan . ” sidered extremely risque , - says nadian Federation for Human Salome Dancer is whether Allan Rosa Jackson is The Journal's Cherniavsky . “ People were scana ities to write The Salome Dancer . would have achieved the same dance reviewer . a

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