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Show 20 A KSCST HEWS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1973 4 J, ' facial expression, Employing natural gestures in Ballet West's 'Giselle' By Harold Londstrom Deseret News Music Editor has to see only one story ballet to realize how important and how much the One on depends performance miming. Perhaps few romantic story ballets have as much miming Ballet Wests does as Giselle that will be presented in Kingsbury Hall at 8 p m , with a April Saturday matinee at 2 oclock Our Musical Whirl Beauty," tell their stones in gesture language. In those days, mime and dance remained separate in the structure of ballet, as Giselle, shows very for example, from gesture is developed these traditional positions. It is also worth remembering because of their relevance to classical mime. The seven movements of the classical dance: plier (to bend), find we are understanding shades of significance that passed us by before. We begin to realize that if we know what these gestures mean, a really expert mime usmg them can make it almost unnecessary for us to have a dearly. Some of the gestures are in headshakmg, everyday use pointing, and so on etendre" (to stretch), relev-c- r (to rise), glisser (to sauter" (to jump), glide), and Elancer (to dart) "toumer (to turn) It is easy to see how gestures are linked with these Others are purely identified the with classical ballet love gesture or the movement that means beautiful (really, a beautiful person) categories In straight plays, the actor who can mime adds another dimension to his acting, in There are, of course, many opera, comic particularly gestures, and usually they are opera, the singer who can mterlated. mime is an invaluable asset. For example. In the gesture No ballerina can reach the of sorrow, the hands suggest weights of Giselle unless she is an expert ir. the art, and all flowing tears, shoulders and head are dropped forward, the narrative ballets, old and new, in Western or Eastern style, eyes are downcast. their native gesture For dancing, everything is employ to tell their stones. language the arms are reversed In ballet there are really raised, the hands twisted high, the head and shoulders are two distinct meanings of the slung back, and the eyes look word There is the traditional gesture language of the classiup. As classical ballet is based cal dance technique, and there on the "five positions of the is silent acfuig. All the famous 19th Century feet, of the arms, and of the Swan Lake, head, so classical mime is ballets, and also built on this basis. Every Giselle, Sleeping So if the class will please come to order, well talk a bit about the miming in Giselle." printed synopsis of a ballets story. "Giselle is a good example of this. All we need to know is, in fact, conveyed by gestures during the course of the ballet. Sometimes it is so These, with others, crop up in ballet after ballet, and as we learn their meanings, we clear that mentally one hears words. Albrecht holds out his arms to Giselle, touches his lips with lus right forefinger. She shakes her head; he raises the forefinger; she laughingly lasses hers and presses it to his lips. Give me a kiss, one No almost hears And she Just one! tell its story, is also a ballet with important acting parts. It well illustrates the other branch of silent acting. Every ... Through this silent lancompromises . . . guage, they can tell us facts Giselle," as well as being a . about the story and the action, but feeling and chartypical early 19th Century balacter need much more than let using classical mime to so every physical means to do The great ballerina uses, in turn or all together, every; nerve and muscle in her body,-bthat is not all, because' dancing (or acting and mim mg) cannot be purely physw cal. The essence of her art i that each nerve and muscle; are employed as servant Kf; her heart and mind, to ex-- , char-- ; press the feelings of the aeter she is portraying ; ut FASTPAtti REUEF boo v ache neuralgia He said any ruling, including The U.S. OGDEN (UPI) Forest Service Intermountain Region has not been drawn and quartered yet, but the idea is under consideration in Washington, D.C, Gordon Watts, deputy regional forester, said, We are aware of several recent news reports Implying that a firm decision has been made by the Forest Service to close down regional offices m Ogden, Missoula, Mont, and Albuquerque, N.M., within the next three months. It is the art of expressing every shade of feeling clearly to an audience and utilizing c Regional office still operating - acting COMPLETE HEADACHE 'COCOS its effects, will be released within the next few weeks by the Forest Service. . 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But how different it can look when real warmth of feeling lies behind the gesture from when it is done as an exercise by students at rehearsal! not Implying real feeling and hands the involves only arms, but also shows in the the light is . |
