Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-11-03
TRAINING BALLET DANCERS. s
A Premiere Danseuse Recalls Her Own
 Bitter Experience.

A Premiere Danseuse Recalls Her Own
 Bitter Experience.
 Mile. Dorst, the premiere, sat in the parlor of the Laclede the other day recall ing the trials she had to undergo as an unhedged ballet dancer and prospective premiere. People little know" she said, ''how much labor and misery go to make up the pirouette of dancing girl. A child should not begin to study dancing after she Is 10; is the best age The limbs then aRe st the right degree of sup pleness to take pupil over the first diff ficulties and help her on to the lower 'quadrillO,' which shs may not hope to win before she fs f6- The form then has gained the roundRess end the flesh and muscles the frrnness requisite to tho artistic poses which create such flu rore h my esso she daily torture con- msnced s$ 8 o'clock. Every morning my feet were imprisoned fn groove box, heel against heel and knees turned outwards. By this process my feet accustomed them selves naturally at last to fall Into par Alel Ens. This Is what Is called So tourner. After half an hour of the groove was subjected to another variety of torment. This time 1 had to raise nay foot and place it on bar Level with Hy head, which bar 1 wss obliged to hold in 6 horizontal line with the hand opposite the foot. was exercising. This they term se easser. After these prsliIainary labors we were obliged to go through a variety of steps and movements
 ''The teaching Is necessarily long and painful, the primary object bsihg to bring by sheer exercise extreme agility and strength to the joints of the limbs and feet. EveR h the education of the i've great toes, so as to make us capable of standing and piroustting on them, vast amount of care and time is expended And not only must the power be acquired, but it must be kept up, for which pun pose constant exercise Is required Other wise tho joints become stiff and relapse to an ordinary degree of strength. A week of repose must be redeemed by tWo months of redoubled, incessant te1. On this condition only can the dancer a%e- serve her suprisness and rghtaess. To acquire, la skill and grace in the movements oA Ae dance Is Q subordinass object. One of the most difficult parts of dancing girls education is, for in stance, to make her smile with the rsst of her compositions and look gracefully et thc public.
 ''Thefe Is DO rest for 6 great dancer st any time of her career. have seen the tKNe Nhsn, a1cer four hours lesson, l havesfallea exhausted cnsthe carpet of my room, where was undressed, eposge1 and sesuseitated, totally unconscious of nay situation. The agility and marvel cas bounds ef She evening were obtained only at 6 price Eke this. But there arc, nevertheless, Egms dancers who, having by nature greater difficulties to surmount, 1 martyrise themselves with willingness scarcely credible. Nathalie Ftgjarnea was an exemple of this. Shs invented new method, de SC tourner ct dc SC easser, st one and the same time. The art of danc- ing has two branches-en baloune and en tacsueS4e. The balloune Is the school et Taglioni; it is the hghtness combined with grace, the dance which seems to es light h and float In tks air. The tse- queste Is yivaeity end RaPidity; t is the littls sparkling steps and measures on the point of the feet; In 6 word, 1t is what Fanny Eiieler made it-"-St. Louis Re | rHhlio