Felix Cherniavsky - Response to "The Salome Dancer"

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Felix Cherniavsky - Response to "The Salome Dancer"

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Boston Globe 28 July 1992 Maud Allan : ' " The Salome Dancer By Margo Miller GLOBE STAFF A video collage Her “ mama's boy " brother was of Maud Allan hanged for the murder of two young women he killed in the belfry of the There is no extant film of All family church . The scandal was to dancing but Cherniavsky has put t dog her for the rest of her life but , gether a six - minute video of st also , perhaps , to form her art . A photos called " Did She Dance ? " th Canadian raised in San Francisco , augments the illustrations in his 1 she was one of the pioneers of mod- ography . Published in Canada ern dance . Even more than Isadora McClelland & Stewart in 1991 , “ T Duncan or Loie Fuller or Ruth St Salome Dancer " awaits an Americ : Denis , she was fodder for the tab- publisher but can be ordered fro loids . Only Maud Allan was the " Sa- Firefly Books , 250 Sparks Ave. , W W lome Dancer . ” lowdale , Ontario , Canada M2H 25 Usually the severed head of John To order the video , as well as t the Baptist was a stage prop and Al- electronic publication containii lan kissed papier mache lips . One Cherniavsky's documentation wiri evening , to avenge one of her broth- the Dance Collective Danse , 1 er's victims , a Hungarian baron George St. , Toronto , Canada M ! made a cruel substitution , a head 2M6 . fresh from the morgue . As Salome , she wore a costume that would make Madonna look overdressed . Lest her performance in India compromise like him to engage Miss Allan at t the “ prestige of white women , ” the Palace Theater so that the Engli British viceroy considered banning public may enjoy her performance " Salome . ” Instead , Allan danced her much as we have . " classical music program , interpret- Butt did and the public di ing Mendelssohn's “ Spring Song ” Maud Allan played the Palace , t ] and Chopin's Marche funebre and class act headlining a bill of juggler a Grieg's “ Peer Gynt " Suite . “ I believe performing dogs , the comedian " w ] it was appreciated by the Europe- made the Shah laugh , " and a blac ans , " wrote a Bengali critic , " but we face act called Belle Davis and H Indians had no taste for it . " Southern Piccaninnies . Allan danci Allan's US debut came in Janu- " The Vision of Salome " immediate ary 1910 at Boston's Symphony Hall . after The Bioscope , a sort of new American critics were also puzzled : reel . The movies were to kill vaud was she a concert artist or a vaude- ville , and television to dent the mo ville entertainer ? ies . Had Allan been the " Salon The life and times of Maud Allan Dancer " of the 1960s , she wou ( 1873-1956 ) are vividly conveyed in have been launched on the Ed Sul " The Salome Dancer , " by her most van Show . recent biographer , Felix Cher How shocking was " The Vision niavsky . His father Mischel was the Salome ” ? All things considered , cellist in the Cherniavsky Trio with more daring act than the perfo whom Allan toured the world . For a mance artist who smears herse while , the Cherniavskys feared Allan with chocolate to make a politic would make off with handsome Leo , the trio's violinist . In a letter home , mixed media who suspends the cru statement or the practitioner the tour manager unburdened him- ified Jesus in urine . Certainly an a self about Allan : " She has innocent but dangerous blue eyes , like a of more imagination . Allan was no quite nude . Acts like hers invited th child's , but she is mean and selfish , a audience's imagination to conspir grab all and give nothing , a harlot at Acts like hers humbly conspired wit heart and a humbug because she is the arts of music and theater magi always posing as the paragon of vir ture . ” Uncharitable , but not inaccu Unlike most dancers , she was geni rate , Felix Cherniavsky writes . Even inely musical . As a young woman sh in black and white photos , those eyes had hopes for a concert career as and mucinions on the aud At her actions , yes . At her feelings , no . cle ever closer that attempts t clude everyone . 13 1.1 nianist