. 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;. side of the children, for in theadult actor, however versatile he may be, the effect ismore apt to be calculated, the result of long-practisedtechnique, than a consequence of perfect self-sub-mergence. This quality of childhood which unites ingenuous-ness with such natural versatility in portrayal is one thatwe cultivate most assiduously in our practice and teach-in
. 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;. side of the children, for in theadult actor, however versatile he may be, the effect ismore apt to be calculated, the result of long-practisedtechnique, than a consequence of perfect self-sub-mergence. This quality of childhood which unites ingenuous-ness with such natural versatility in portrayal is one thatwe cultivate most assiduously in our practice and teach-ing of dancing. It is our chief aid in realizing the all-important ideal of getting back to Arcady. If we areable to make believe that we are Arcadians, presto!to all intents and purposes we are Arcadians, and pro-ceed to do as the Arcadians did. The very moment in which that mental transfor-mation is achieved one enters into possession of a reper-tory of characterizations the most poetic conceivable andcovering the whole field of idyllic emotion and action. One Hundred Nine The idea of Pan inspires the Greek dancer with a charming variety of inter-pretations of a lyrical, as well as of a sprightly and miscluevous, Dancing Back to Arcady In their greater and lesser deities and the earth-bornchildren of their gods and goddesses the ancient Greekspersonified every attribute of Nature, every human am-bition and activity. To them these beings were real, asactual as themselves. That they were not visible tomortal eyes served still further to exalt and permanentlyestablish them, and to increase the potency of the spellwhich they exercised over all minds. What an advan-tage they held, still hold, over the frankly fictitious char-acters of our modern novels and dramas, the most heroicor charming of which seem to live for a day, then to grad-ually fade into the mists of memory! Those ever-living creations of the classic Greekpoets supplied every variant of interpretative inspi
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