Felix Cherniavsky - Response to "The Salome Dancer"

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Felix Cherniavsky - Response to "The Salome Dancer"

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THE BOSTON GLOBE • TUI Boston Globe 28thely 1992 Maud Allan : ' The Salome Dancer ' ‘ Street Fight VIDEO Continued from Page 53 Capcom . " It's head - to - head competi tion , it's fast - paced , and people like By Margo Miller that . What makes it so great is that GLOBE STAFF A video collage there are over 30 fighting and de Her " mama's boy " brother was fense techniques to master . ” of Maud Allan Like thousands of other Street hanged for the murder of two young Fighter II fans , Fonseca and his women he killed in the belfry of the There is no extant film of Allan family church . The scandal was to dancing but Cherniavsky has put to friends hang out in the afternoons , dog her for the rest of her life but , gether a six - minute video of still play the game and have a good time . " To me , it is an unusual game . also , perhaps , to form her art . A photos called “ Did She Dance ? " that The fighting moves are challenging Canadian raised in San Francisco , augments the illustrations in his bi she was one of the pioneers of mod- ography . Published in Canada by . Fonseca , sporting a baseball cap , a and each character is different , ” said ern dance . Even more than Isadora McClelland & Stewart in 1991 , “ The | Walkman and a T - shirt . “ And you Duncan or Loie Fuller or Ruth St Salome Dancer " awaits an American Denis , she was fodder for the tab- publisher but can be ordered from can also compete with other kids in the arcades . " loids . Only Maud Allan was the “ Sa- Firefly Books , 250 Sparks Ave. , Wil The flashy " Street Fighter II ” lome Dancer . " lowdale , Ontario , Canada M2H 284 . Usually the severed head of John To order the yideo , as well as the game became a phenomenon after Capcom USA Inc. released it in Feb the Baptist was a stage prop and Al- electronic publication containing ruary 1991. It was later named " Ar lan kissed papier mache lips . One Cherniavsky's documentation write cade Game of the Year ” by the evening , to avenge one of her broth- the Dance Collective Danse , 145 Amusement and Music Operators er's victims , a Hungarian baron George St. , Toronto , Canada M5A Association . made a cruel substitution , a head 2M6 . fresh from the morgue . As Salome , Riding the popularity wave , Cap com then released “ Street Fighter II she wore a costume that would make Champion Edition " in April . Since Madonna look overdressed . Lest her then , the company has sold more performance in India compromise like him to engage Miss Allan at the than 20,000 arcade games nation the “ prestige of white women , " the Palace Theater so that the English wide British viceroy considered banning public may enjoy her performance as the average Top 10 video " Salome . ” Instead , Allan danced her much as we have . " game rarely sells more than 3,000 classical music program , interpret units . Street Fighter II was also fea Butt did and the public did . tured on the covers of six game play ing Mendelssohn's “ Spring Song " Maud Allan played the Palace , the and Chopin's Marche funebre and class act headlining a bill of jugglers , ers ' magazines over the past four months . Grieg's “ Peer Gynt " Suite . “ I believe performing dogs , the comedian " who it was appreciated by the Europe- made the Shah laugh , " and a black The Super Nintendo Entertain ment System version of the game re ans , " wrote a Bengali critic , " but we face act called Belle Davis and Her cently hit Boston's store shelves . In Indians had no taste for it . " Southern Piccaninnies . Allan danced Allan's US debut came in Janu Japan , where the game is more pop " The Vision of Salome " immediately ular than it is here , more than 1 mil ary 1910 at Boston's Symphony Hall . after The Bioscope , a sort of news American critics were also puzzled : reel . The movies were to kill vaude lion units have been sold . was she a concert artist or a vaude- ville , and television to dent the mov " When virtually all of our indus try critics concluded that the Street ville entertainer ? ies . Had Allan been the " Salome The life and times of Maud Allan Fighter II game series would rival Dancer " of the 1960s , she would ( 1873-1956 ) are vividly conveyed in have been launched on the Ed Sulli the popularity and success of Pac “ The Salome Dancer , " by her most Man , we knew we were not only re van Show . recent biographer , Felix Cher leasing a megahit , but initiating a How shocking was " The Vision of new entertainment phenomenon , " niavsky . His father Mischel was the Salome " ? All things considered , a said Joe Morici , Capcom senior vice cellist in the Cherniavsky Trio with more daring act than the perfor - president . " The home version of whom Allan toured the world . For a mance artist who smears herself Street Fighter II will have a dramat while , the Cherniavskys feared Allan with chocolate to make a political ic impact on the market . " a would make off with handsome Leo , the trio's violinist . In a letter home , mixed media who suspends the crux statement or the practitioner of Boston's video arcades and the aters that carry the game have been the tour manager unburdened him ified Jesus in urine . Certainly an act crowded with teen - agers wearing self about Allan : “ She has innocent of more imagination . Allan was not backward baseball caps and squint but dangerous blue eyes , like a quite nude . Acts like hers invited the ing into the glare of the screen . child's , but she is mean and selfish , a audience's imagination to conspire . Street Fighter II features 12 grab all and give nothing , a harlot at Acts like hers humbly conspired with characters , including Honda the heart and a humbug because she is the arts of music and theater magic . always posing as the paragon of vir sumo wrestler , Dhalsim the yoga Unlike most dancers , she was genu- master and Blanka the beast . Each ture . " Uncharitable , but not inaccu inely musical Aca voung womon cho " 9 1 a nhanontor has his ny hon Atyn

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