El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-17
NEW DANCE Is
UNCANNY AND
CUBIET DREAM
Nine. Valentine de Saint
Point Fails to Please Paris
With Metachorie.
NOT LIKELY TO
REPLACE TANGO
BY LA RACoNTEUsE.

n ARTS, France, Jan. 17.-Mme. Val
entine de Saint-Point is most
4 determined woman, but I venture
to say that even now, the tango being
dead and all but buried by society,
she has scant prospect Of conquering
Paris with her ''metachorie" as she
modestly calls her new dance.
have lust returned from her sec
ond performance at Astruc's theatrical
palace in the Champs Elysees, to which
She had invited the elite of Paris So
ciety Though her first attempt was
rather harshly treated by the press,
she has evidently been able 10 make
society grant her a new trial.
A Young woman in a fine sable cloak
stood at the elevator next to me, hold
ing in her arms the smallest dog 1
have ever seen. The elevator boy
picked up sufficient courage to say
with a blush at his own audacity:
THE performance is not for dogs,
madame" The young woman looked
at him with her deep violet eyes: But
Muzzi is only four months old, he
does not understand anything and is
too well brought up to bark The
elevator boy smiled and took US all,
including Muzzi, to the entrance OF
the hall above, where we settled down
in the comfortable arm chairs.
Feels Herself Inspired.
Nine. de SainI-Po1nt is a DeauIlIul
fair haired young woman possessing
all the charms of mind and body. Her
talents are numerous She is a poet,
painter and composer. A descendant
of the great Lambartine she mas given
to the world a number of poems, some
what influenced by 1uturlsm, which
nobody understands. But the restless
genius of MINIS. de Saint-Point left her
no peace, she felt the moment had
come for a revolution in dancing, and
felt herself inspired to reveal the
dances of the future.
Nine. de Saint-POint wants dancing
to be more than mere empty move
ments of arms and legs, it must eX-
press sentiments and ideas, become an
ideaIistfc art, chat dances are not
words but thoughts"
promising and no one had expected
a more commonplace definition of her
art from this woman, whom Maitre
Rodin has praised and whom Gabriel
d'Annunzio calls "the daughter of the
e.Daughter of the sun" Appears.
The curtain rose. 1t was almost
dark in the audience, with strange ef-
fects Of lighting on the stage. Wrapt
in nebulous clouds, on stone in the
center of the stage, sat a mot1onleSS
figure. illuminated by pink light,
emerging from nowhere. suddenly the
and everything was quiet until a SON
orous voice begins recltlng Nine. de
Saint-Po nt's mystic poems. Invisible
to vOur eve he filings the words into
the dark auQieuCG III q NOAIC WHICH
is constantly increasing in strength
All are trembling, for the loud
er the invisible spirit roars, the
less they understand The words are
mixed together IN hopeless confusion
as if written down by maniac. The
daughter of the sun talks a language
never heard before by the ears of NOR
tails.
Is a Cubist's Dream.
The stage gradually grows brighter.
What a strange decoration. Every
thing on the stage is square, the dream
of a cubist Valentine slowly rises
from her low square stool She raises
her arms with violent motion and
walks forward with the step of
Prussian soldier passing the kaiser
To music composed by DebUssy, she
begins to run across the stage, stops,
turns around once, twice, twists her
BODY like a hoOchee koochee girl, and
throws herself full length on the
floor Muzzi, until now peacefully
slumbering in the lap of his mistress,