DANCER AND MUSIC.
Elsa Wicsenthai, one of tho most refined dancers of Vienna, has hit upon the idea of conducting the orchestra by movements of her head. The impulso which used to como from tho conductor will now como from the dancer. To this conception of a " conducting dancer " or " dancing conductor," Fran Wicsenthai hns given the nanto of " Battuta-Dances."
Dancing will no longer bo passive, dependent on the music; it will now be an active driving force. Any sign given by tho dancei to tho orchestra is to be an " artistic stumnlus," or, as Frau Wisenthai calls it, a " theme." This is to rosult in now and closer relations between the xlancer and tho music. Tho dancer's movements will lead the orchestra, and nt tho same time he or she will be carried by its Bounds. Under this mutual influcnco closer unity of dancing and music is to be attained, leaving wider scope for the imagination.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20366, 21 September 1929, Page 2 (Supplement)
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157DANCER AND MUSIC. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20366, 21 September 1929, Page 2 (Supplement)
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