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Title: 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;
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Moller, Helen Dunham, Curtis
Subjects: Dance Dance
Publisher: New York, John Lane company London, John Lane
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ace and beauty of the dance. It invites us whodance as dancing ought to be, for our own joy and bene-fit, to make a public diversion of what is our pleasure andour duty to ourselves. And this is as it should be. Itwill contribute new-old beauties to the Art of the Dance,and it will help to convince the multitude that what theyare witnessing as a stage performance is really what theythemselves should be doing every day of their lives! Because there existed just one country and oneage in which simple beauty and high serenity of mindwere exalted above all else, we are popularly called,Greek Dancers. Let us try to merit that designation.What modern sculptor would not die content in theknowledge that his epitaph would proclaim, Here liesanother Phidias? In our time we are ages distant fromthat living spirit. How quickly it vanished from the Twenty-five Unfolding, as though giving or about to receive—an idea of petals openingto exchange the flowers perfume for the warmth of the suns rays.
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The Classic Ideal—and Ours world! Not even Michael Angelo could grasp it. Hisvision is o£ man burdened and disquieted, oppressed bymysteries which he cannot penetrate, writhing in con-flict with forces too great for his control. In the sculp-tures of the Greeks, on the other hand, man is calm anduntroubled—and the gods, we must remember, are butman exalted and made immortal. Strength, skill, wis-dom, temperance and modesty are implied in his attitudeof quiet and balanced grace. For him life as he knows itis good and fair. His reckoning squares itself on earthand calls for no celestial adjustment hereafter.* The smug, squeamish, hypocritical Victorian Ageproduced poets and painters who sickened and died ofnostalgia for its antithesis, the Age of Pericles. A war-rior—Lord Elgin—committed the crime of ravishing theParthenon of its chief sculptured glories for respectablesepulture in the British Museum. Wordsworth, in anhour of true poetic vision, penned a sonnet: The world is to

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