Novel Entertainment
Exponents of Eurhythmy from the Goetheanum, Dornach, in Switzerland, gave a matinee in London recently. The entertainment—if such a Philistine term be applicable to a function where conversation, even between the various items, is apparently frowned upon—l consists of a lady in one of'the boxes reading a poem, such as Keats’ ‘‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci,” or a transit tion of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, while other ladies on the stage represent their reactions to them by means of postures and sinuous gestures. Alternatively music, such as a Rachmaninoff Prelude or a Chopin Study, is played on the piano, and the, reactions are portrayed on the stage, in the same manner. There is no question, .apparently, of heightening the effect of poem or music by these movements; they are just an expressive-medium.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 46, 25 February 1936, Page 11
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132Novel Entertainment Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 46, 25 February 1936, Page 11
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