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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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estern girland spent my childhood in the freedom of the western prairies. I shockedmy family and our neighbors by nmning about barefoot. It wasnt a badhabit, but a very good one. All women would be healthier and more grace-ful if they bared their feet when in their own homes. I rJin and playedand tiunbled with hunting dogs. They were pointers. How naturallygraceful were all their movements! I have never had to unlearn what theytaught me. The studious reader of the connected essays on classic Greekdancing which form the text of this book will, perhaps, find in the personalexperience just described sufficient warrant for the authors repeated as-sertions that cultivation of the impulse to dance is more important andshould precede any effort to acqiure a mechanical technique.—Ed. One Hundred Five The race, adapted from the classic Greek games, is useful in dance interpre-tations combining grace and swiftness of movement. The silhouettes com-pare fantastic with natural grace of movement.
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Dancing Back to Arcady any sense of rhythm? You see at once that telltale liven-ing of the eye, a spiritual exaltation reflected in thecountenance, and soon the whole body begins to react tothis special influence of beauty; the child is living thatthing of beauty and creating more beauty—for she isdancing! In virtually the same way her body and hersoul had reacted, and she had become a component partof the beauty of that perfect morning in June. Childrenare rarely outsiders; they do and live the things that arebeautiful. Herein is the lesson: Because the passing of yearsoppresses us with the thought that we are no longerchildren is not material, so long as we retain health anda certain amount of vigor; all we have to do is to destroyconsciousness of self—health and vigor, and a restoredreceptivity will do the rest. In our dancing according to the classic model,which makes of the body an instrument for the expres-sion of all thought and emotion, there is a fundamentalprinciple whic

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