New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-08

Ensler and the style that Mr.. Mordhn
teaches In this style every emotion can
be expressed-love, hate, envy, fear eX-
pectation. even perfect peace"
And one by one the dancer expressed
them all
yes" she continued, "the dancer 6f to-
day must be an actress as well as
dancer. She must understand the human
heart and all its infinite moods, for II Is
far more difficult TO express in silence
merely through motion, than II Is to eX-
press by the voice. So I don't think I am
impairment in saying that 10 be great
dancer requires fully as much II not more
genius than TO he a great actress or opera
singer And this is what a Russian audi
ence demands.
Toward dancing an audience in Russia
is as critical as an audience in Italy IS OF
singing. Make a mistake and storm OF
Kisses will break out. 1 tell you it keeps
one on ones mettle. There Is no fooling
the Russian public it mas been educated
by the best dancers OF Europe, and II won
stand for any trickery.
1--WE begin dancing at the government
conservatory at ten or eleven and we re-
main there until We are seventeen or elgh-
teen. We are taught everything TO make US
well rounded men and women, for we must
know how 10 use our minds as well as our
foes. We learn history, poetry, philosophy
and mathematics, and we study hard. But
there is one great drawback for dancer
in Russia-the salaries are pitifully small.
4 preniere danseuse gets only 5000 year
and the ordinary ballet girl $50 month, so
YOU see II is little wonder that we seek out
other countries where the rewards are
much higher.
England to-day is possibly-the country
where dancing is the most popular. The
English have gone absolutely mad over 1t.
but as vet the public Is not educated up TO
the FINER things I'm the art as Is the public
of my own country But II is surprising
what good dancers English girls make Mr.
Mordkin has brought over a number or
them They are such hard workers and
have the slender bodies so necessary for
dancers.
"Tbere is no reason, either, why Ameri-
cans should not make as fine dancers as
anv one I'm the world. Miss Duncan is an
American, and, though ! do not entirely
admire her school, see what she has done
even I'm Russial Then You have Maud Allen
and Ruth ST. Denis. But at present your
dancers ara largely individual. You have
little organization. think that the ballet
school, at the Metropolitan Opera House Is
An excellent institution and one that should
be encouraged II Is doing fine work, and
we have taken for our ballet number OF
its graduates.
1T seems, however, pity that your laws
prevent young children from attending that
school A dancer must begin young. and.
instead Of hurting a child's health, 1t VIII
improve il marvellously. We must Keep
always in condition, and our art teaches us
self-reIiance, and the power OF absolute
self-control If We did not have these two
qualities II would be impossible for us to
succeed"
At this point Nine. Sidowa's secretary
who had been sitting silent through the IN
terview, entered into the conversation
But madame has not told you all her
accomplishments. She has not SAID that
she is also a composer
The Tribune man looked Interested.
Yes" said Nine Sdowa, music mas al
ways been my hobby. and one OF the pal
lets advertisements in which am To dance
( composed myself / did II just TO sho"
that a woman can write dance music as