ART OF THE BALLET

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 35, 4 November 1933, Page 2

ART OF THE BALLET

New Production by Club In view of the worthiness of the Ballet Club’s aims and in view also of its previous most successful public performance, its forthcoming production, beginning next Saturday, will be awaited with keen interest. The ballet is an art form with which New Zealanders in the past have had little acquaintance. It combines within itself several of the most important of the arts. Music, movement, decoration and story are its essential components and these must themselves form a harmonious whole. A club, therefore, whose object is the development of the ballet, both for its own sake and as a national and individual means of expression, deserves every possible encouragement. , , , ... At its public performance the club will present its members in a number of divertissements and also in two ballets, “The Mvsterv of Pan” and “Adventures at the World's End.” In the first of these ballets the music is by Debussy and the choreography, scenery and costumes by Madeline Vyner. In the second the music is Tschsikowsky’s, the choreography is by Madeline Vyner, the scenery and costumes by Yvonne Bendall, and Uie story adapted from Russian fairy tales by Marjorie Muntz.