Show I A CONGRESS OF DANCERS L nJ l t Correspondence Paris France M Sept l The word 1 gives 1 vel many mallY Ih the m o of a dreary hall ailed 1 aids dull men mea looking at a covered tW table at t which are seated other dull raga me with the gift ot of talking inter Tt The E Exposition however has haa an epoch In congresses the theO theother O other Ser day there then hu Oft one where the they It may lave but been the eons on afOUl neighborhood of the Palace of Dance the frivolous association of the I 1 Palace ot of Costume or In hi short bort of Paris Pari at an any rate they danced Tb Then is I at t present is In session Ion 1 a con COli area of physical education which is II much interested In gymnastics and anel In the apostle p of Swedish 10 gymnastics wished tv to chow hr her colleagues the results obtained by bythe bythe the latter laUer It II must n t be that Swedish I are ure meant to prepare on one for Ih the art Certain dane dances It Is II held are a necessary sary complement of the method The participants were the scholars of Mrs Mra a dosen dOlln young girls They wore wort costumes of black knitted wool cov covered ered cowered with a tunic descending to the knee The garments arment allow all possible play to 10 the muscles murle at the came am time swathing the form so 10 closely as al not to tobe tobe be In the nay a ThY They execute various movement nt In concert with 1 a rigid reo re lell apet for and alignment The method essentially In II a series of t and attitudes The gear tuna tur are rasher the exception tion of a few which are extremely the tb attitudes are held a certain tain length of time One is II struck Itt at once by I the be ot of all apparatus tUI d or and also allO b by the number ot of athletic evrel which can be tired without the employment ot of Ih the latter The gestures appear at first lance glance to 10 have no special meaning but on n investigation It ls II found that all allIre allare Ire are founded on some ome physiological rear rea son on Each II has a definite object to work or to contract a muscle or group roup of If muscle and as there are man many and various arloua muscles the gestures are like likewise wise wilt many end and various In this way 11 all the body la II exercised All II regu with scientific precision and with the exact knowledge ot of the organs that thaI each gesture lelure or attitude pule Into a co Ion Uon and each ech muscle is II Intended to tobe tobe be exercised In toe the moat effective man manner manner ner anti and under conditions moat favor tor favorable able In view of the force forel expended Tile The combinations are Ingenious In the exercises intended to increase respiratory tOr tory energy for tor follow those thoe that occasion breathlessness anI ami duro dur durIng Ing 1111 each lach movement the prescribed at ate causes caUM the InActiVE parts of the body to furnish the best belt end more eee e eure cure ure support for tor the parts In action acHun All I Is graduated and combined It is also alo aesthetic There is II trig In common between the of the anti and those t of oC the traditional school hool The general elect effect I la one of harmony harmon and grace there I Is stiff or constrained all the attitudes seem easy eUY anti and natural And In tact fact this Se I not surprising ur ate ter one has studied the exercises Thy They tend to 10 make Ih the bod body supple and con contribute on tribute especially lally to the development ot of Ih the muscles mUlde of the b back k end and neck of nf Ib the shoulders and sides Id or course the aesthetic effect is II not the result ull of Ih the exercises alone It is II due tl to the mariner in III which they ere are ro and prescribed Grace I is often otten nature al but hul It Ina may be 00 acquired by a ous education of the muscles After giving In An exercise of gymnastics the Iho director announced an anIt exe It her It or of dancing This consists of tIP mingled with attitudes all RI ale to produce certain gymnastic et ef efre f re t I The dancing Is II slow and It resembles the minuet with a more mOlt general enral of the hud body Again after g few grave Irav steps such luch as al might have been made b by the religious lancers or of ant am tent OrI there I is a PO pose tI which f reminds th the of antique statues The Is ao well coordinated that the gymnasts who bo ar are not particularly pr pretty tt or well shaped produce in an et f fe t that has much charm anti and some ome attains to 10 real beauty With nl pretty prett women well trained In Inthe inthe the system m ont one could establish an ate t tn I Inn that would be as al successful as AI AIth th lh exhibitions of dahl dances du ventre Put lilt th the director has no such uch object Rhe th wishes merely mertol to show the ease tue and given toy by the melh method l rend fin I to demonstrate trat It its scientific char har chara a er hl he dell desires also aillo to spread the of grace anti and strength 11 glees health and on th the other han hanf i exterior grace is reflected on lire Ure humor the attitude reacts on the feel leel leelIng log Ing tilt the gesture on the brain |