BALLROOM DANCING

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2217, 1 August 1914, Page 6

BALLROOM DANCING

T j^^NA; v PAyLOWA>S^NEiv : :" ; ■ J -■U : *—":;--"- : inssioN.f4;.;.:'^c: v ;:r,j ■:' 'Anna- Paviowa, -tlie"celebrated' ; dan-- ; : seuse, :has announced in America' her ;'■ intention to .assume personally the .lead-' ■< : \ -prhsip in a /movement. r tbat is ■. being I r.Btarted, to::effect a;general. .betferinent' ■■'' ;m modern4allrb6m,dances and methods -:; : . - ot-iaanc!iiig; - -As-is her 'custom, Mile.. ■: i.paviowa-,does : -nqt-intend to'.'apprpach- ; her tasK in a 'half-way, manner.'" She )s firinly of the-opinion ihat the Ameri- ' -fan ; people, are'.not doing .'themselves . -justice. in their/: effo'rfs to'execute so- : -piety dances. no less of the opin- '•'-:;■'•, jpn.-.tliaf. unless a. well-organised effort •a: .is launched and nrSmtained'to correct .' sthe existing society"dance|,;evils that 'the : dance art, as a. whole, may be seriously ■' ;affected. ; She:'says:—- "■ y,•., .-:■-., ,■•[ ,'.■■;'-■ 'lAVhat is needed^;first <>f all, is stan- .. dardisation. AVe cannot expect repre- _:, sentative accomplishment where there is .. ,no .established .standWrd.-' \' If stage .■'. dances were permitted to drift, as have • those _use(l in ballrooms,' 'we" :ehould ;■ .have, instead .oF , an''art,;n<ything more "' : than' pirouetting, kicking, confusion. ■•;.-.•: Now; that .I have-determined'to!, try ■ : ,'... to/show a !way out of the society -dance 7 dilemmaj'.which.seems'to obtain in other- ,": .couritries than, : ; America, I 'shall. 'not; . ceaee'.my;effort's;.'until."something - sub- : stantial, has;- been iattairied;" Apparently the; Russian', exponent :"of .terpsichoreaii art is. -in' earnest,, for, she,-is. ~ \ now. busy,at her;Londoh : hoine, evolving .; /means for elimmatiiig'U.thei suggestive ; and .'ungraceful; 'prevail in popular in the; United States and:' Canada:-> Beyond this, Mile. Pav- •, lowa , . is : feconstructing" certain 'dances whose priri&'ipari'eleroentsafe artistically .sound ,anil,-practicablo.' '.:■;'. ■■'', ;.:i?;' ',' - ;■."■ Mile. ■■Pay.jpwtt i; '.li'as authorised an ■ open .'competition, in which/1500; dollars ; ; in ca^hA'pmes';;is; : to'be paid for three ' ; pieces ' regarded as best . Buited'forthe'intrpductioiiof thedauces f. . Paviowa.Dauco' ? 'Music<"Contest iG now ofEriaHivppened,.Smd- composers of any n^Upnglityv-resKung , ; ;in'.■■•the;. .United States or'pa'na'daj.are v eligible,''to''com ; -. pcto -for'one of /the three"-500,-dollar pnzes r ,.-Maiiuscnr}ts may''bo'- ; forwarded , to'TilasVßab'ihoff," .htXthe; , Ale'tropblitan Opera Housei^yildipg'.-Ne.v,.'York .City, at auy time prior to August!,next, 1 the date for the clpsing of th.e competition. /.AcoordingJa. tlie.conditions governing thdiCQuJefitylJipkires.irictipns are- plapea upon-'Xthow nTho"Tnay,-,v,w.isfi to submit ' pjecesr'pf' music.j ;^Each, -cbnip6ser may wr-ito'''wh'otßver-fsTdesircd,»so long as it '< iS&f fdshce"?liar3ete'r.,~ melodious, and Btr^fgl£;niarked''ii);'rhythni i ic: character:-! Indeedpthe , chief roason-forthe 'appeal;'; . to American-residing; musician's, is that Mile.. Pa.vJowa;;]o.pks v upo_n v ,their, dance music .as. generally.'stiperior to that'-.of .'all others for-its required;purpose. ■ . ■: '-As rapidly, as the'majiuscripts are're- , teived :: "in ? New"York;tlmy-. will be for-1 .warded to the.dnnc'er,,who is herself to .. be the solojiulge of what shall be con-eMered'the--three: most.' desirable com- ,'■; pbsitiorisi*;lty~-is'-Hhe;inf<mtiori"of Mr. Rabinoff to feature'Bi'e 'name of each of the successM'cornposers''in. conjunction ' '■'. I that no stand a fair chance' 1 of* obtaining ' cal t -" , — "•; _ v ■ ; , -