NOVEL ENTERTAINMENT
Exponents of Eurhythmy from the Goethennum, Dornach, in Switzerland, gave a matinee in London recently. The entertainment —if such a Philistine term bo applicable to a function where conversation, even between the various items, is apparently frowned upon —consists of a lady in one of tho boxes reading a poem, such as Keats' " La Belle Dame Sans Merei," or a translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, while other Indies 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 tho piano, and the reactions are portrayed on tho stage in tho same manner. There is no question, apparently, of heightening tho effect of poem or music by these movements; they are just an expressive medium.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22350, 22 February 1936, Page 32 (Supplement)
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134NOVEL ENTERTAINMENT New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22350, 22 February 1936, Page 32 (Supplement)
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