. 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;. ations of the classic Greekpoets supplied every variant of interpretative inspirationof which the ancient Greek dancer felt the need. Thatwas their task—to impersonate, to interpret the attri-butes of the immortal heroes and heroines of Olympusand to portray the lives and deeds of their children ofearthly birth whose names sprinkle the pages of Homerand Virgil; and,
. 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;. ations of the classic Greekpoets supplied every variant of interpretative inspirationof which the ancient Greek dancer felt the need. Thatwas their task—to impersonate, to interpret the attri-butes of the immortal heroes and heroines of Olympusand to portray the lives and deeds of their children ofearthly birth whose names sprinkle the pages of Homerand Virgil; and, in lighter vein, to depict the sports andloves of the humbler, happier creatures of the streamsand woodland glades. That, too, is our most agreeableand beneficial task. For the advantage of self-sub-mergence in a series of definite and inspiring characterscannot be over-estimated, and for us who dance the idealcharacters are these immortal creatures of Arcady. The moment you enter into the characters of anancient Greek Nymph or Naiad, daughter of a River God, One Himdred Eleven Woodland interpretation. The ocean-born Aphrodite being adorned by God-desses of the Seasons for her first appearance among her peers on Dancing Back to Arcady you are emancipated from all that reminds you of the en-vironment of your modern conventional existence. Yourbody no longer is the slave of Fashion. It is draped, notclothed. These draperies—merely a filmy envelope forthe body—offer no restraint to the freest movement ofany member, and they add, rather than detract as clothesdo, to the bodys grace and beauty. Perhaps you have ascarf, so light that it is the sport of every zephyr. Thisgracious freedom of the body is symbolical of all thatenters into your idyllic life—your poetic sylvan envi-ronment, your ignorance of the meaning of such wordsas care or worry. You are a creature whose birthrightis pure joy. Ordinary mortals walk; you dance. Ofcourse—how can you help dancing? Now
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