. Dancing with Helen Moller; her own statement of her philosophy and practice and teaching formed upon the classic Greek model, and adapted to meet the aesthetic and hygienic needs of to-day, with forty-three full page art plates;. cing, and the Art of the the Art of the Dance, like Opera and theDrama, is confined almost exclusively to the stage;whereas to-day, and from the beginning. Dancing is anatural gift provided for the pleasure and benefit of allhumanity. In ancient times, when human nature was naive,its natural emotions unrepressed and its actions char-acterized by truth
. Dancing with Helen Moller; her own statement of her philosophy and practice and teaching formed upon the classic Greek model, and adapted to meet the aesthetic and hygienic needs of to-day, with forty-three full page art plates;. cing, and the Art of the the Art of the Dance, like Opera and theDrama, is confined almost exclusively to the stage;whereas to-day, and from the beginning. Dancing is anatural gift provided for the pleasure and benefit of allhumanity. In ancient times, when human nature was naive,its natural emotions unrepressed and its actions char-acterized by truth and sincerity, dancing reached a stateof purity, grace and dignity of which the sophisticatedworld of to-day knows comparatively nothing. It wasartless, in the sense of lacking refined technique; but itwas truthful; it faithfully expressed emotion, and thereinlay its surpassing beauty. Because it was healthful, itwas moral; being artless, its enjoyment was universal—everybody danced. Joyous emotions being Naturesfirst Call to the Dance, and such emotions reacting most Twenty-<m» Expressing wistful expectation—the hands in an upward receptive gestureand the countenance as of hope for some yeamed-for gift from The Classic Ideal—and Ours profoundly to the influence of the green earth under theblue sky, dancing was mainly an open air had not yet attempted the destruction of thestrong and graceful human form by loading it down andcompressing it with fantastic and unnecessary and medicine, finding no place in the Arcadianscheme of existence, were misfortunes yet to be was Dancing in its Golden Age—an ideal, worthyand entirely practicable which, fortunately with somesuccess, we are endeavoring to restore. In a score of thick volumes you may find the his-tory of the Art of the Dance set forth with the most con-scientious attention to detail—and very little of valueabout Dancing, in the true sense of the word. You m
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