DANCE RECITAL

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2933, 20 November 1916, Page 3

DANCE RECITAL

MISS DOROTHY SAUNDERS'S PUPILS. A charming dance recital was given by the pupils of Miss Dorothy Saunders, in the Concert Chamber of tho Town Hall, on Saturday night. Her Excellency tho Countess of Liverpool was present. Tho proceeds of the entertainment are to go to the Pearson Fresh Air Fund, a charity which has the admirable object of giving parties of slum children of London one whole happy day in tho country. The object had its best commendation in a recitation by Miss Alice Saunders —an account, in London slum vernacular, "by a poor child, of tho unalloyed delight of one of theso' fresh-air picnics. The saddest of beings in the world aro surely those who take no pleasure in the contemplation of flic cue thing in life perennially beautiful—youth. Tho laughter and play of littlo children aro the most joyous experiences that can come to grown-ups in this now very_ sad old world. So it is that dancing, the oldest of all arts, has the very widest appeal, because there is nothing else that so faithfully exhibits the joie de viore which belongs to all growing things as their first and greatest birthright. Miss Saunders's pupils are mostly quite little people. Their grace is not that of conscious It is spontaneous. Dancing for them is as a frolic. The whole idea of the first part of Miss Saunders's very whimsical programme was of a perfect revel of frolics in a dreamland garden. The stage settingwas a most gorgeously exotic garden scene "A Child's Vision of the Garden"—a place where pixies might hide, 'and fairies dance. The dances were all arranged in harmony with this pretty conceit. Most of them were meant to symbolise the spirits of the garden—the flowers, the fairies, and the elusive shadows. Dancing of this sort is not mere nimbleness of twinkling feet. Graceful postures, or soft slow motions of body and limbs make up no small part of it. The performers were not by any means all of equal merit. Some there were, who had the real spirit of the dance in their supple bodies. Others were perhaps not ouito so clever or so perfectly at ease. The music for the dancing was played by tho .South Wellington Orchestra.

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