A BALLET REBEL.
/A writer in "Cavalcade" has the following interesting comment anent Leonide Massine's season of ballet at Drury Lane, London, in s which Serge Lifar, the famous maitre de ballet and chief dancer of the Theatre National de l'Opera, Paris, was principal dancer: —Notable about "Gisella" v at the Lane this week is its insipid music, but it is one of the most esteemed survivors of pure classical ballet from the last century, was re-staged by Lifar six years ago at the Paris Opera. Relegating its music still lower is "Icare," Greek myth of the youth who, flying to the sun, loses his wing and falls to doom, which represents Lifar's theory on ballet. He believes that it should be freed from the yoke of music, that the dancer himself must set the rhythm on which the music must be constructed. To disciples' of conventional ballet the idea is sacrilege. Lifar arranged the rhythms for "Icare" himself.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1938, Page 21
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159A BALLET REBEL. Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1938, Page 21
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