Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-29

elsewhere, not only inc term
EFFICIENCY" but "A1 Efficiency"
is oeins practised as we'll as
preached. Young painters and
sculptors. students of the great
classics which depict the human
face and form as Influenced by diff
ferent emotions and physical effort,
are no longer satisfied merely to
create graphic or plastic representa-
tons of these moods and actions;
they are teaching their own counte-
nances and bodies to convey. first,
the ideas which they wish to depict
with brush or chisel
This is a novel illustration OF "A1
Efficiency" applied to art The prin-
ciple involved is stimulation OF the
creative impulse through gaining alb
eolute command of their own bodies
and means of physical expression,
resulting in perfect coordination Of
all the mental and physical faculties.
It will be seen that the principle ap-
plies almost equally to any vocation;
so anybody's efficiency in life will be
improved by dancing. ~
Thus a young Russian girl with
German family connections, studying
sculpture in Munich, has become
such an exceptionally capable dancer
--on the classic Greek lines OF that
nrt-that she has created Juror in
the art and. general society Of the
Bavarian., apital. Although her pro-
auctions as sculptor have not yet
won the critics entirely. her purely
incidental ability as a performer Of
classic dances has spread her name
and her fame throughout Germany.
She Is Yme!da Juliewna, and the
photographs reproduced on this page
speak for her beauty and intelli-
gence no less than for the grace with
which she adorns her dancing and
posing limitations and creations.
When she initiates the sculptured
Dying Gladiator" her sculptors
minds eye" is fortified by the SEN
sations in nerves and muscles of her
own body-this muscle is contracted
just so, this other muscle fexed, nee
essarily, and so on. She becomes
the Dying Gladiator" and will know
better than before how to represent
him on canvas or in marble
Everything we know and feel is
learned by us through the medium
Of our five senses. Our five senses
are all purely nerve and muscle ac-
tions and reactions. All emotion is
g complex of muscular and nerve
phenomena. Just as body in
which all the muscles, nerves. etc,
are in harmony in healthy body, so
the peculiar complex OF muscular and
nervous activity that we know as
emotion will be plea SAINT and happy
If il is harmonious.
A carpenter to be Al efficient in
his trade is one in whom every mus
cular action and reaction is perfectly
timed to the result he desires 10 &C
complish. SO OF all other trades. Al
efficiency in life is dependent upon
exactly the same thing.
In no other way than dancing Of a
particular kind can this peculiarly
subtle muscular harmony be gained.
rhythmic movements that counterfeit.
and emphasize and develop we'll.
known gestures Of grief enable one
to build up resistance against sor-
row. Sorrow that causes people to
commit suicide or TO become i'll and
abnormal is simply case of mus.
cular ineptitude. II Is exactly like
e man who has not been trained
to wrestle trying TO keep from being
thrown by trained wrestler. But
II one In series OF well.thought-of
dances counterfeits all these express.
Eions OF grief, when grief finally does
come it finds muscular harmony
and development along the lines Of