Identifier: cu31924019227044 (find matches)
Title: Dancing with Helen Moller; her own statement of her philosophy and practice and teaching formed upon the classic Greek model, and adapted to meet the aesthetic and hygienic needs of to-day, with forty-three full page art plates;
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Moller, Helen Dunham, Curtis
Subjects: Dance Dance
Publisher: New York, John Lane company London, John Lane
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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y ex-ceptional capacity for perceiving and knowing beauty.The majority of human kind are comparatively unde-veloped in this regard, and their capacity for happiness iscorrespondingly restricted. This is mainly because they ,do not habitually do and live the things that are beauti-ful. A fully developed aesthetic sense is not to be gainedby the mere spectator; he must have a consciousness ofparticipation, and in some way he must express that con-sciousness. We cannot all be creative geniuses—poets,sculptors, painters, composers of music; but all of us whoare normal beings can learn to actively respond to theinfluences which they exert, especially the influence ofmusic. Young children usually are considered to be sim-ply little animals. But watch them in the presence ofsome powerful manifestation of beauty. What child One Hwndred Three An expression of pleasurable relaxation pervading the entire body—a com-plete reaction to influences that are pervasive in their sweetness and charm.
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Dancing Bach to Arcady does not almost instantly respond, both physically andpsychically, to that masterpiece o£ Nature, a perfectmorning in June? The small boy tears off the hatedshoes and stockings and races with joyous whoops overthe cool greensward. The little girl shows her longingto follow him; she is only restrained by the conventionswith which so many mothers oppress the souls andbodies of their feminine offspring. But her breastheaves, her eyes sparkle: she lets herself go to the limitof the sense of freedom left in her, and now and thenthere is one whose actions declare her to be in open re-volt. She doesnt care! Let them call her a tomboyif they like! Off come her shoes and stockings, her hat,her apron—every article of clothing she can modestlydispense with—and away she goes! She is expressingher sense of beauty and developing her capacity for hap-piness. And from that cause will spring a contented anduseful woman.* And music. What normal child ever is seen to as-sume

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