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Show RUTH ST, DENNIS SAYS "THE DANCE MUST STAND ALONE" Miss St. Dennis sayo thai until dance can. stnnd nlone as an ait, nnd I an Independent art, It can ii07ir establish Us place as n gicat a 'r indeed, in-deed, the mother of all arts. To Illustrate this principle she has put In one number of pine ii-nf. ment, uneuhtalned and unlimited by the help of any other pari, even ni'i- sieas?;'" -yr MIsSt. Dennis feels li.i tin' dance has leached In America a vpiy Intel estlng phase of Its development. That It Is now entering Into Its pi'C-ond pi'C-ond period, the first being the. in spiratlon and attainments of th)i? few personalities that led this whole new movement of the dance it wli.ch she may claim to be one. Imt ntoi& and ndmireis hnve been added y ar by year to the three school? -tiMng this term In Its broadest sona'j. The schoojs of those who call themselves followois of Isadore Duncan, and nor literal school and dancers; ilu gioat work of the Husslans and thnlr mun-lfold mun-lfold activities, and her own bn.hetlc ait. It Is nil very Interesting a-nl n greater thing is being done than ro-ple ro-ple realize for this levlval of a voiy necessary ait, but sho feels that greater study, a deeper penetratliu, and more Independent thinking must be had It the danco Is not to eleg-i nate and gradually recedo from the point of meio entertainment that In UTiny cases Is all that It can claim. To be put upon a par with the other centuries-old nrts, tho dance must be put upon n moie scientific basis than It now Is. |