The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-07-04
By Lydia LupOkOva.

Formerly Premiere DdnscHsc Of the I'm
periat Theatre ~ st. Petersburg.
T HAVE vowed never again 10 dance. For
the best OF reasons have I made my
vow. The dance is dying In six
months ~ win be dead One should not
attach herself 20 a corpse.
The tango, the one-step. the maxixe, are
numbering the dance. In the tango you see
the death agonies OF all dances. Through
the Summer II may drag a lingering life.
for summer Is the silly season. but the
Winter will come upon the dance dead.
10 viii die because the foolish people
who have danced and danced and danced
will tire OF Il. OF that which we have done
too much. the enjoyment with which we
have been satiated. we tire. First weari-
ness. then disgust, then abandonment That
is the history Of all sensations overindulged
In. and dancing Is only sensation
IL Is well. | shall not raise my hand my
foot, nor my voice against the death OF the
dance. Although ] have given all the life
! can remember TO il. though ! have been
as devout az the altar OF dancing as ever
priestess before her shrine. / have dropped
II, and willingly. for !. too am suffering
from disgust have seen a great art desc
Grated. made foolish and absurd ] have
seen the garments OF Terpsichore trailing
in the dust. I see dancing everywhere. /
cannot escape II. II haunts me like the
at table in restaurant or hotel. for there
are no more good walters They have
turned dancing teachers. I know a tailor
who used to make thirty dollars a week.
Now he makes three hundred n week by
giving tango lessons
1T Is very much money" ne said out
] shall take u so long as they pay it,
There Is no use doing things we'll which
everyone Is doing more or less badly and
Tor which there exists no standard Your
dancing In America. what f. &C.? One-step-
ping. You say you tango. but you say that
because u sounds wei. You do not tango.
else two persons In your country would
dance 70 the same way, but they do not.
j have seen thousands dance what they
call the tango. and no two have danced 20
the same. u is chaos Of one-steps into
which the dancer tries 10 introduce indi-
viduality and only murders grace.
The American is light upon his feet ~
Is remarkable how little he seems 20 weigh
though he weigh much. That may be truth
fully said Of him. but otherwise as q dancer
he b. deficient sadly. almost hopolesglv-
for he has little music I'm him For him
the sense of rhythm is rudimontary and
never seems 10 quite grow up. The dancing
sense is not in him. and he substitutes. I'M
stead. dancing nonsense
Re attempts the maKixe Mcrcifui heav.
ems, Again the liRhtncss OF his feet and
nothing else. The maxiXe is beautiful 70
requires the dancing sense. music and
rhythm. and Americans have them not.
Therefore your maxine ig buriesuuc
The hesitation WaIfz2 You DO it better.
but always there Is tho careless. sIovcnly
descent into one step which. as j have said.
is only a walk
The turkey trot is dead and ~ what?
~ died last Winter of WEAKNESS. and was
buried BY disgust Dr. has preceded the
Others hy year Next October am cor
tain uey viii Be inferred in the graveyard
~ memories 81 our f0IlIre
Mourn not the passing OF an evil tifng
] pronounce the dancing madness DOB tho
United States an evil thing because 10 un.
dcrmines the character DO DESTROY. tho
health. The mind. though. suffers most
% ALL
Life VIII ho stupid without the dance
you say. Buf YOU. my dear rir or madame.
are stupid with it Think OF the head
omptying process % whirliue,ab bout a room