Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-12-02 | Page 27 | Ballet for U. S. is Urged

BALLET FOR FORU or U UI S IS URGED Art Form Broadened By ByL Modem Modern Music and Stagecraft By Dy W F t The he opinions about the superior superior- superiorIty superiorIty Ity of tho the Russian and Oriental dancing appearing In magazIneS at odd als give me ma a desire to Sf an si opinion because I do donot donot donot not agree with what I road The advertisements and pamphlets pamphlets lets referring to method and train train- trainIng training ing leg of dancer dancers In those countries an the sweeping claim of a few teachers who claim to combine methods of all nations In their teaching making makinI them all all- all Is also propaganda rather than truth truth and Impartial advice Nations NatIon having the cruel and un- un unjust just un-just just laws these nations have hava a a small upper claa clos with unlimited and overwhelming num num- number num- num number ber her of people enslaved have not and cannot give to the Yo world orld sn an anart art form torm or anything else that live and b be perpetuated Russ RUSe MUSIC POLISH There Them Is no music of real worth I wrItten by Orientals the best of the supposed Russian music Is usually ally Polish and Poland Polands abhor abhor- abhorrence abhorrence abhorrence rence of Russia's domination and cruelties are too well known to need coment The music of Chopin that humanity the tho most Jq Is lan l'an an affected expression of sorrow for tor his beloved Poland enslaved by Rus- Rus Rusala Rus Russia ala sia the cruelest crudest of nations We Wo try to malte make make the ballet RU Ru- Ru Rusian Rus Russian sian or to nationalize It I claim It I Is ii universal and fundamental just as ns all big things are coming nearest to expressing the feeling of the rich and the poor the big bigand bigand and anel the tho small of all nation and to fill the tho need need of relaxation and of play to a purpose of the en- en entire en entire tire Uro human family It If one country could coula claim lm the ballet more than another It would be Italy Hilly because It cias 88 born there and there probably reached its lis highest development but claims of other nations will not help the cause causo of dancing In America The sane thing for tor Americans to todO todo dO Is to develop the ballet to It Its highest point then ask the United States government to Institute a ballet school In America The bal bal- ballet ballet bal ballet let Is not national Modern music and modern stage stagecraft stagecraft craft are the principal Influences that have broadened the modern ballet If It thu this 01 or that teacher Is doing good work ork and teaching education education- educational al at dances let us all be he quick to appreciate and accept him regard regard- regardless regard less of whether the work Is origin al there Is nothing new under the sun without bringing In thIs method or national bunk Ho He who makes much of some one else else's method or en e of some natIons natIon's method Is more moro or less a fraud and cony i cry evidently not big bill enough to stand alone JUST TEACHES SINGING There was a time In the realm relm of vocal music especially when to advertise the teaching of the Its Its- Italian Ita Italian lian han method was as an asset but not so toda today I heard a pro prospective pupil ask aska a 8 truly bl big teacher What method he taught and his answer wu we w I X do not know what you mean I teach toch singing This also applies In dancing The silly remarks about tech tech- technique technique Is good but a 0 big technique Is harmful to the dancer as It a technique was not just as a narrow a a limited vocabulary Implying come to me inc and I will give iou OU dances and put you OU on the stage In a er ery short time ci be very ery amusing It they were not so mischievous The fact Is the they are still giving just as much technique a as they are capable ot of o giving and he who saB says that a big technique I Is ii not necessary to become a n big bl- dancer dancer er or or that It Is a needless husk Is only making excuses for his own Inefficiency and laziness no nn