The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-19
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 o Music

In no instance has the effort to arrive
 at Renaissance of dancing been pro-
 duotive of greater benefit or more de-
 lightful results, than it has had upon the
 grace, carriage and general appearance
 Of the woman of fashion of today. It
 has become a maxim that grace Is a necessary concomitant of her makeup
 and lacking it, she is seriously handi- capped in the race for social favors thar
 lie within her reach.
 Beginning nowadays with the school
 girl, the restraints of the study desk are
 largely overcome by the splendid freedom
 of class dancing, and the ''Folf' and Ma
 tona" Dances introduced, form as well, d
 valuable educational feature of the work.
 Delcroze, a professor Of music in Paris,
 was the first to value rhythmic motion
 with music and finding that 1t was so
 effective he applied 1t to schoolroom gym
 Esstics.
 From the Parisians Americans usually
 borrow their inspiration of things aesths-
 tic and fashionable, and the revival Of
 dancing and all of its benefits has taken
 such a hold in the larger cities, particu-
 larly New York of late years, that now
 adays it is considered nothing short of u
 part of ones education.
 The aesthetic side has harked back to
 the most exquisitely classical effects.
 from the beautiful dance that Rita Sa-
 chetto does to a Beethoven minute to the biblical Salome that has been seen in
 every possible phase the past two years. The incarnation of all the loveliness of line, motion and costume. Miss Isador A. Duncan has revived in her dancing, to the accompaniment of Schumann, schu- bert and Humperdinck's beautiful music. Wagner gives us the most delightful ex- amples, the next time you see "Das Rhlnegold," note the movement of song and movement of the Rhide maidens--the | loveliest expressions of the pure joy of liv- ing that has never been demonstrated, unless perhaps with the exception of the ''Tanzlied'' in Also Sprach Zarathustra," 1 of Richard Straus, in which the composer | seeks to express by dancing the teachings I of the great German philosopher Met szche, who wished to place a crown of l roses on a man and teacn him to laugh | and dance. This wise man looked upon l cancing as something to be sanotifled, as 1 the best expression of human happiness,
 and optiuist as he was. believer in the l continual evolution of mankind to higher
 and higher levels. he exclaimed: "Erhebt cure Herzen, ihr guten Tanzer, | hoch, hoher!''
 1 Never laggard is Birmingham in the race | for accomplishment and the renewed in | terest in dancing was noticeable from ths l school girl to the fashionable woman of l last winter. Birmingham is to be con- l graduated upon having an eminent in structor in this beautiful art, and having heard that MT. J. E. Miles has just re- | turned from New York, where he has l spent the summer studying under the l famous Chalif who for many years was an instructor at the Royal Conservatory of 1 Dancing at St. Petersburg, I found him I at his attractive school of dancing a few l days ago, and asked him to tell me some | thing of the new methods he had ac- | qured.
 | MT. Miles returns to Birmingham with | his diploma from the California Normal | School of Dancing, besides having stud | fed two seasons at Harvard under MT. H. 1 B. Gilbert, the originator of the beautiful method of Gilbert dancing. The prettiest | of compliments was paid to MT. Niles 1 just before he left New York, when he | was appointed assistant instructor of folk | dancing for the Hudson-Fulton celebra- | ton, and which he was forced to decline 1 on account of opening his classes here within the next few days
 l q have had most delightful and ben- 1 eficia summer" said Mir. Miles, as he l called my attention to the many improve l ments he has made in his School for 1 at the corner of Twentieth street and 1 Fourth avenue.
 l "I have brought back to Birmingham l the latest and most popular steps in so- l cial pantomine, chrdren's dancing and 1 all the aesthetic accessories that New | York affords
 And what are the social dances that
 are most popular after the barn dancer l asked