The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-09-22
AMERICAN DANCERS The BEST
THEI LEAD ~ GRtfE AND
TlCILfTi ON THE STAGE.
shorter Training 81 BaiIei Girls Here
-itaiy's Dancers ard Their Defects
Americans superior Ca social Dane
ing Also Lack Of arAcr Abroad.

not good danccrr comes with poor grace
from All English source. "a the professional
womendancers that coins here from England
ara acceptable only In on. branch Of their
work and that specially unlucki,y for thcm
has lost it, popularity. They are thu
most graceful Of the skirt dancers and with
them the attractive skirt dance originated
But IN no other branch are they to H. com
pared In grace or agility with American
dancers. wl",her they are ballet dancers
doing the conventional and regular sets OF
steps or whether they arr trying horn
pipe ar jig steps.
The English dancers have tho advantage
Of a more thorough training than the Amer-
rams. for they lrgin earlier. although they
do no, follow the custom Of IN. French
dancers. who ar. sst TO work a. rats In
the ballet school Of the opera when they ara
u In England the, arr Appren,iced
usually a. the age ~ IA 20 on" 81 tho ballet
masters. who gives them in-trl~tiou while
they are al-o appearing In the hack row
of the ballsts In the music hsll-. Tho
American dancer rarely l~gins her work
lrfnre She j. -. II l. then too late for
her to tccome a. supple ~ tho girls who
started In when four or five wears younger
aud che surer- In this respect 10y compat-
an with her sisters who laRan carli"r
but In spite of this disadvantage. the
American ballet lancer Will have more
grace aui spr'rhtiipcss han her English
colleague. The latter will ia all probability
get around with morn ease aud certainty
than the American dancer, hut with no
suggestion Of the Americans grac" and
natural adap,ahility tor dAu"iug There
ar many English ballet dancers here.
although French and Italian women form
a ma inrtv In the ballet corps, and they
generally hnd employment readily a.
they are we'll trained and trust worthy.
But the stag Managers know that tA"
American girls will h.. able 20 add to tho
ia ncing a freshness and vivarity that the
English women never supply. although
they NAV hp superior va all points Of their
work that NAV be acquired through practice
aud routine.
The women from the Continental coun-
tries ~ Europe who con" herr are murr
graceful than the English dancers, and
/ ih,ir training IL even morn thorough, ls'-
cau-- they lsgin earlier than IA" English
and keep up their PREPARATION longer
With them dancing IL a serious busiii's,
for which they are carefully trained,
which often pas-"s from one gynera'ion TO
another. II II no thing 20 ma
i'm the Furutean oIerH houses women dane
ing IN the ballet with their daughtors. who
are ~trcinning at - "r IL th" Inst stages
Of training
Petersburg and Moscow arr nov IN" prinCi-
nal organizations of thu Kind an turuIs. Ia
ltaly the theatre - nov So Impoverished IA
most of the larg, cities that even ~ Hon"
and at la scala In Milan. which formerly
pus-r-s-.d ballots a. good n any In fufoIr',
the dancers arr to-day few IN number and
OF no especial prominence But the training
Of dancers In the hall-t -chpois keeps up
almost NJ actively NJ ever, and a. n result
Italy supplies halh"t dancsrs To- t"arlv all
the Cpun, ri-S that need them lArs' num-
lrrz of Italian dancsr~ COM" her" and they
arr employ.d to n COn-ids rahl" extent IN
Berlin and Vienna although IN" stat" opera
houses recruit their forCS- Chirry from
native dancrr Who hav' srved Their
apprenticeship Ia the hufp" theatre,
IN III. privai. thsatrps - Paris and th"
German and Russian cities Italians arr To
10 found IN GREATER humi-rN man thr
dancers 81 anv other nationality they
ar. about ~. is,-i dancers OF all, although
thov ar. likely 80 Wrgl"Cf on" important
fcatur Of their prof sion. They t-'un"
Indifferent after a Will" 10 tN"tf Fr~nnsl
apr-araucn and thus the Italian dan"r-,
wh.Io they may H. tho most supple and
skilful In their work. ar likely To b III"
least attractive 10 hook at.
H. il In this rc-l-.Ct that m" American
Cancer l. the SUPERIOR ~ all h"r sisters
D NffA = w" NENA AN'hNNk hN"A ~ ~
lacius - much later than that Of the others
her figure does not become so. much like
that Il an acrobat In youth her api'ar-
anCo T. mor' at'rnctiV" than that pre-
.,ut.d bv th" dtHvu Ua-rl'- oi her col
Irnguee. tut slr will grow stout In nine
cae.s out ~ ton iEfpr" they haN" t-guh
'o tax" ON flesh o. An extent that inter-
fcu,s with 'hvir work lnth THAT sag"
l. reached. an spite - h"r shorter training
and her hack oi experience IA comparison
with "a" foreign dancer, ia" VIII naturally
l., the most graceful ~ all the women IN
2 ,h. ballet. III" will have more OF the real
enthusiasm ~ dancing than any ~ the
other, and she will. 81 CON ~, bstlI" pn"ttteSi.
Auar' from the work that the American
women do Ia the regular taile's, tls'N
arr .us, now To- demand all over the world
haCnu-, they NJ" mon" "NI-'r' IN DANCING
,hau tho, uf any other ustion and wr'h
the English voinrn arr practically In ~'u-
troll 81 tho field Now II ~ "a. Americans
who are th" gr,at"r fsvoriie-. Saharvi.
! az American. l. lust nov IN" ino-t p"puh
, uf IN" acrnia,iC dancers abroad, and ~"
l. lot thu only ou" who las made "a -'n~a-
4 ttnnal success "a the foreign music hait-
I<adore Duncan 10 d"lightiug fan- now.
Americans are the only women ~ thoss'
plac,s that dp what an called dancing
turr- Whether they 49, negro IN character
4 a. merely the steps thai our soubr'tt'--,
as hey nr called. iLtrstus' IN ANY cong
that NAV permit a. Nothing about n
German Onmic oIprn surp1~'- an Aineil
. GAN fNNNNNH NNNNNN NV Ah"|fNNN'H 80 y W NA'A' 80
Never from the l-giuuing To ~" end 81
7 an oV.rrtta j. thcrH a siugl" danCr step
4 halIet may H. introduced, hut none "i
IN. s,ng"rS will ever dau,'. u - IA" tarn"
IN the Nnri.'y th.atrH-. cNccpt for the work
. 81 I'M, American and Engii-h performers
Tie Er.nCh dancing j. cunit'd To an
occasional uuadrillc troII- IN" re-t "i
the dsuoing b. supplied hy the Americans
who since they first lsgnn 10 emlgi ate
~ IA" foreign music halls, haN" driven
on, hv their superiority a. danc~r~ ~"
E~nglAhwomcn who FORMERLY had IA mon
opply Of the field None uf ttm wum"n
81 uther nations has ever tired ip initiate
the American aud English dancnrs with
he iigS. horupirr-. skirt dauC,~ and oak"
walk The women ni frauc', i.us~ia.
GERMANY ard Italy take ~" regular bhll''
training ur they h. dancing atone ~"
only eNccU'iuu- to tbs Diir aD' IN" lreu'l
Can-oau dau,yr~ and the OCCASIONAL national
danc,r. VIM an usually graduate # ~"
ballet 1h,N a." ISrlaps no. 'Nirf
enough 'o remain iu ~. and 'a," =. 't"
tingla-tangk,. ~ th"v ate C.IIsd On Ger
many ard Austria :
u j. np' ,ulN ~ tag" t,Hcrf- that 'N"
vo'n,n 1t ihi- country az" su'~'rnf 20
thp-c of ary ,.H,r lf there 90 ,-',utv ~
"a IL. $50. Ia L a..