Show GRACEFUL MLLE PERTINA OF SOUL KISS IS ENTHUSIAST ABOUT DANCING Mlle Mile Pertina the chic and winsome dancer of The Soul Sou Kiss waxes elo eloquent eloquent eloquent quent when describing her art She 15 is isan an enthusiast about terpsichore and in ina ina Ina a recent Interview voices her opinions in the following words I Dancing develops the imagination to toa toa toa I a greater than almost any other art The painter or sculptor can describe his emotions or his ideals exactly through the medium of his art Modern music has become almost as accurate and realistic In describing everything from nature sounds to the most complicated emotion But the dancer has only nimble toes and a subtle body to work with in de do depicting a scene or a feeling of the heart and consequently has to put all her In Intelligence nce Into her work Ork in order to convey her meaning to the public A good dancer must be a close observer of life for she cannot draw on ones on s Imagination for the details which go to show a public exactly what is passing In the th dancers dancer s mind In the hunting dance in the last act of The Soul Kiss I try to portray the chase after the fox beginning with the meet the caracoling of the horses the start jumping the hedges and finally the cap capture capture capture ture of the brush I have to dance as the horse and rider at the same time and depict the tho exhilaration of the rider as well as the nimbleness of ot the animal The art of descriptive dancing is not minutely to portray each occurrence or give what might be called an Imitation of at the thing that is supposedly happen happening ing but to create the Illusion without destroying the poetry of the dance by too A mortal trying to accurately describe the move more movement movement ment ment of a would look both ugly and ridiculous And above all aU thing the dancer must never be either f of Jf f these In the hunting dance there therefore therefore fore it Is necessary first to get the sen sea sensation sensation of the hor horse e cantering and then to describe that movement trans transformed transformed transformed formed Into a dance movement and aM act to the rhythm of o the accompanying music A dancer giving an accurate Imitation imitation tion of a horse and rider Jumping a hurdle would be anything but graceful and yet when seen the jumping horse and good rider are grace personified And nothing Is so exhilarating as to sit on a good hunter and take a hurdle In perfect unison with your mount In Inthe Inthe Inthe the dance J try to give the sensation ol ot the jump and ana the only bit of realism is the swaying of the body into position after af er the jump jum has been accomplished which Is what 1 I 1 have and felt when taking the bar on a horse It Is the additions of little bits of observation like this combined with the vivid imagination that makes up a de descriptive descriptive descriptive dance In other words It Is realism conventionalized conventionalized to the dance step and never going beyond the bounds of grace or beauty be uty or over overshadowing overshadowing overshadowing shadowing the personality of the dane dancer er The descriptive dance needs more concentration of mind on on oh the work than the ordinary fancy step dancing because not only must all aU the details be remembered and the various steps executed in time but the dancer must keep her mind on the succession of imaginary events she is trying to de do describe describe scribe through the medium of the th dance and her facial expression which is one of her greatest aids in acquaint acquainting ing lag the public with the passing picture must vary as that does It If she stops thinking of her subject for a moment the expression of the face will die out and the public lose the th thread of the story For after all the descriptive dance is merely a story told by b means of the feet the body and the face tace and like the story teller whose mind wanders she loses her point if she forgets the subject of her dance for an instant |