Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02
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Nine. Kintzel indulgently watches their ef~
forts for moment and then demonstrates her
conception of a graceful sitting position
Now, don't you think you would look bes-
ter in this attitude, my dear?" she inquiries
with a disarming SMILE and the pupils enthu-
SaSticaly agree
It SO simple and yet so graceful As
she turned her back to the chair and pre-
pared to sit down, Nine. Kintzel first bent her
right knee, slipped her right foot partly be-
hind the left one, and then lowered herself
gently into the cushions. She crossed her legs,
but only at the ankles, keeping her knees
almost together. From full front she shifted
to sideways position, but without crossing her
legs any higher than the ankle. Her arms
seemed to take very good care of themselves.
II shall forgive you many mistakes she
confides to her pupils "if you will not cross
your legs above the calves. The most ugly
sight imaginable is a woman sitting down with
one knee thrown over the other"
And so, studying one attitude after another.
the young danseuse-she is a skilled musician
also-teaches women to be syphlike and re-
main in rhythm with the eternal law of beauty
and harmony. It seems that there are an in~
Vulnerable number of attitudes to learn in order
to be nymph, but, in reality, there is only
one rule, and that is to adapt ones self to
pretty curves instead of stiff. straight lines.
TOR example, when many women wish DO
pick up something from the floor, or
YOU'LL ooAiCtAiAilS Ou d INV tADlc, GLcy WILL Keep
their legs perfectly straight and bend from the
hips, making perfect right angle. Is it not
more charming to drop to the floor, or as low
as necessary, with the right knee, keeping the
end of the spine low and the head high? And
the unoccupied arm extended forward instead
of hanging down? And then, aside from the
question of general attitudes how many women
know how to show their arms to the best adj
vantage? How many realize that these ex-
tremities are meant to be poetic harmonies in
stead of knife-and-fork manipulators?
Il was first led by my musical studies 10
take up the search for esthetic attitudes" Mime.
KintSel told me in hasty interlude between
lessons.
I'VE all know that there is subtle relations
Ship as the Russian ballet dancers SO beautf.
fully demonstrate, between music and bodily
movements. Every phrase, every note, has o
significance that inciteS a certain precise move-
ment, and no other. H.
"I studied acrobats, athletes, wild animals
and ancient Greek statues to discover the laws
or harmonious movement, retaining the true
natural, graceful gestures, but rejecting the
automatic and mechanical motions. learned
that certain movements were agreeable because
they conformed to the speed, weight and archi-
lecture of the human body. I also discovered
that even If a woman could not become more
beautiful, she could become less ugly
ST was finally able to lay down the laws
that had been seeking, and wrote treatise
on the harmony of attitude that is just as
precise as treatise on musical harmony. Ii
has already started a movement in France
against our ridiculous modern day attitudes~