. Theatrical and circus life;. motions ofthe hundred or more bodies ami the beating of themasters stick upon the floor. How long must they practice each day? Well, before they are supposed to enter theacademy at all, they must have had one or two yearspractice outside. In the academy they have fourhours practice under the direction of the masterevery day ; but many of them do more work than this,especially the most ambitious. 1 used to practice fromeight to twelve hours daily, and even after having leftthe academy I kept up my daily exercise for increas-ing the limberness of the joints and the
. Theatrical and circus life;. motions ofthe hundred or more bodies ami the beating of themasters stick upon the floor. How long must they practice each day? Well, before they are supposed to enter theacademy at all, they must have had one or two yearspractice outside. In the academy they have fourhours practice under the direction of the masterevery day ; but many of them do more work than this,especially the most ambitious. 1 used to practice fromeight to twelve hours daily, and even after having leftthe academy I kept up my daily exercise for increas-ing the limberness of the joints and the toughness ofthe cartilages. The more practice, the nearer per-fection. I suppose the pupils are divided into classes, arethey not? Yes ; we have four lines of dancers in Italy. Youhave only three here. We place our coryphees farth-erest off from the premiere ; you put them beginners at La Seala go into the coryphee class,from which they are gradually advanced to thesecunda Una, then to the prima Una, and, after-. (255) OBERON AND TITANIA. Oberon: — What thou seest when thou dost wakeDo it for thy true love take. Midsummer Nights Dream, Act, II., Scene 3. 250 TRAINING BALLET DANCERS. wards, to solo parts, when they practically becomepremieres. But eight years, I suggested, is a long time tobe working without any return in the shape ofeitlmoney or glory? Ah, there you are mistaken, Cardella answered,pleased to find that newspaper men sometimes makemistakes, The pupils at La Scala arc paid some-thing from the time they enter the academy. Theyfirst, while mere coryphees, get thirty francs a month ;in the second line, sixty francs; in the third, eighty;and when advanced to solo parts, two hundred francsa month. At this they stop until they finish theirschooling, when they take places in the principaltheatres, make the usual tour of the provinces andof the continent, and finally settle down, if they hanot become famous, to some solid competency, just asI have done my
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