. 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;. anded in her dancing creations or interpretations, theintervals, however brief, are always marked by an instantreturn to the erect, full-bosomed poise representing aspira-tion. This habit of aspiring to the skies tends always todevelop powers of mind and qualities of soul which are themost potent of all producers of health of body. Thegrovelling mind dwells in a fla
. 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;. anded in her dancing creations or interpretations, theintervals, however brief, are always marked by an instantreturn to the erect, full-bosomed poise representing aspira-tion. This habit of aspiring to the skies tends always todevelop powers of mind and qualities of soul which are themost potent of all producers of health of body. Thegrovelling mind dwells in a flabby, cringing envelope in-capable of resisting the evils that are ever ready to attackit, either from within or without. The bodies of thementally deficient are always defective. But when themind is alert and the spirit uplifted by the joy of physicalparticipation in any of the aesthetic activities of civilizedexistence, continuous health of the normal body—barringaccident—^is assured. We believe that we are warranted in the assertionthat no known means of attaining this ideal conditionequals the dance as we practise it. Ninety-eight ^IIJAPPINESS: HEALTH PLUSHH9 KNOWING AND LIVING^f THE THINGS THAT ARESERENELY BEAUTIFUL. A modem Aurora on a misty morning dancing with dew-laden ferns. TheGreek dancers vital body, though lightly draped, is proof against such slightdiscomfort!. VI Dancing Back to Arcady ALL that we have stated or quoted thus far bearsdirectly upon the subject of our dancing. Ourdivision of the general subject under such headsas Clothes, Sculpture, Music, Health, is to give emphasisto the importance of those elements. They are not to bedissociated from the practice of dancing according to theclassic model. And this brings us to the element whichis chief of them all—Happiness. For, besides being thegreatest desire of humanity, happiness includes all ofHealth, much of Music, something of Sculpture, and isin perpetual warfare with the tyrant, Clothes. In danc-in
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