The Denver Jewish news., 1923-01-03
Pauley and Oukrainsky,
Creators of Ameri-
can Ballet
By FELIN BoRowsKI

! VI -Alll'il' hsA III i''' az
years has been the growing importance
of the ballet. its music and action
created by native writers and danced
rn1 mined 10y American artists. The
writing of music for ballets and pan
tomimes is not. perhaps. ms notable as
the ability of indigenous performers Ia
appear in them with Imagination and
skill For until recently dancing and
/ the difficult art of pantoinime were not
,imong the things which We're reckon
ed rs typically American heritage.
For many years the ballets present
cd in this country We're produced by
foreigners. At first it was the Italians
and the French, late: it was the Rus
would seem that now the tables are
turned Two of the most pcrseverinc
lihorors in the field of the dance have
been .\ndreas Payley and Serge Ouk.
rainsky. who. in addition to training
and exploiting n ballet company of
their own We're for several seasons
maitres de ballet for the Chicago Opera
Association-that organization which
now calls itself the Chicago Civic
Opera company. Both in their own
company and in that of the Chicago
Opera Association Pav'ey and Ouk-
rainsky have shown that American
dancers are well able To compete with
their colleagues overseas. Not only
did they demonstrate this to audiences
an American. Miss Ludmilla. who
in Chicago. New York. Boston. and
many another city of America. hut the
reputation which the ballet achieved
led to an invitation last season in re-
sponsd To which Pavley and Ouk-ain-
sky took their company To Mexico,
where it played nightly to 300 people
in the Esperanza Iris, the largest the
alter in Mexico City. Thither they
Will return ngain this season. as well
as to Havana.
Pavley's Training
The two masters of the dance are of
more than ordinary interest Andreas
lavley is not Russian. as many Of
fos want of better one-have be
lieved. He was born in the Dutch East
Indies. at Batavia, the capital of
Java. His father was wealthy mine
owner of Dutch origin. his mother was
n Russian. The future dancer left
Java at the age of Z. For two years
Ec lived in Pctrograd, then in Holland,
where he went to school mt The Hague
Pavley began dancing at the age of
Is. DalcroZe, the founder of Eurhyth-
mics. had something to do with the
molding of the young artist for the
latte:. was with him for one and
half years at Geneva. He is IL good
Tea cher IL. one has TALENT said Mr..
mical and does not to any great extent
take the technique of dancing into ic-
count
1t was Clustine who. more than any
other teacher. was responsible for Paw
ley's progress With him the dancer
remained for six years. Pavley made
his debut at Amsterdam in Becthoven's
"Prometheus," the whole of which he
arranged although he was not more
than IL years of age That this was
a more than ordinarily ambitious ef-
fort may he believed when il is stat
cd that there were no fewer than 100
performers i'm the ballet. Later in
London Pavley fell in with the painter.
Arid RosenkrantZ. who. having writ.
ten the scenario of n ballet entitled
The Gate of Iife"-the music was
arranged from Beethoven'S piano SON
atas-collaborated with the young
Dutch dancer in its production at the
Savoy Theater in 1912. When Pavlowa
came to America for the first time
Pavley came with her as member
Of the company.
4 Russian Count
Serge Oukrainsky is one of those
romantic figures that novelists write
about-or used to write about in ear
lier days-and that few people meet
in daily life. His real name is Orlay
de Carve and he is-or was-a Rus
sian count In the palmy days of
Iiussian autocracy the de Carves We're
personages rathe- than persons. They
We're possessed Of much riches and
great estates. Both departed from