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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: University of California Libraries
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me 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 too much with us; late and soon Getting and spending, we waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours;We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!The sea that bares her bosom to the moon, The winds that will be howling at all hours. And are upgathered now like sleeping flowers.For this, for everything, we are out of tune;It moves us not.—Great God, Id rather be A Pagan suckled on a creed outworn.So might I, standing on this pleasant lea. Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea. Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. ♦John Warrack, from his introduction to Greek Scxilpture. Twenty-seven An adaptation of the classic idea of Pan—three manifestations emphasizingthe gay and mischievous attributes of that minor deity of the Arcadijinwoodland.
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The Classic Ideal—and Ours Yes, the coveted spirit is Greek. But is that spiritforever lost because modern hands fail to reproduce it inmarble? Our bodies are in no way different from theirs.In youth our minds are plastic; let us encourage them toso act upon our emotions that there will be true beautyin our dancing. In America our prospects are brighter than any-where elsewhere else in the world. The great mass ofthis countrys population is unspoiled by the traditionsof arts that have become decadent. Our melting potis mingling the most vital blood of every enlightenedrace under the sun, thus obliterating national traits dis-covered to be disadvantageous and creating a new peopledevoid of belittling prejudices, fresh, strong and originalin its creative impulses. What we have already accom-plished in our reform of dancing has directed to thiscountry the hopes and expectations of the connoisseursand critical authorities of Europe. Especially with re-spect to dancing and music among th

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