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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ed by standing in the bright sunshine on a cold day, and watchingthe outline of ones own figure, when little waves of shadow, like thedancing hot air above a flame, will be seen to rise upward quickly and con-tinually. The skin is seen exhaling carbolic acid, steam, and a number ofother poisonous matters, while it absorbs in the meantime the oxygen ofthe air. Everybody will understand that any check to this respiration ofthe skin, by diet or by thick apparel, prevents the free exchange of poison-ous for pure gases, and, therefore, is injurious to health. It also proves thata skin that can breathe freely through its pores, and is accustomed to air-baths, and other kinds of gjrmnastics for the skin, has special faculties forcleansing and improving the blood, and healthy blood lays the foundationof a vigorous and fatigue-resisting organism. Forty-seven Here the dancer, erect and recumbent, realizes in living^ movement the classicsculptors sense of the aesthetic value of simple draperies.
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The Tyranny of Clothes bodies and limbs are draped only for modesty and grace;our skins are soft, healthy and fine. If we fall short oftheir state of physical perfection, doubtless the causelies in the number of hours out of the twenty-four duringwhich the social conventions of ordinary life compel usto confine and burden our bodies with unnecessary andunhygienic clothing. Fashion, in modern times, is responsible for theworst possible crime against health and grace in itstyrannical treatment of our feet. The natural human footnot only is beautifully formed but is a marvel of strengthand elasticity. It easily bears up the whole weight ofthe body, while, in the exercise of walking and running,the feet perform more work than any other member.Their structure is necessarily complex—a finely organ-ized, shapely, mass of jointed bones, powerful muscles,ligaments, tendons, and sensitive nerves, with a circula-tory system which depends for its efficiency upon free-dom of movement of every pa

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