From Dancing to Ballet
BALLET is an art; an art with technique and tradition. Miss Bettina Edwards who introduced the subject in the, Winter Course series from 1YA gave an interesting account of the background and growth of her ‘art. The speakers in these brief sessions (15 minutes) must all be conscious of the relation between
the extent of the subject and the time allowed for exposition, and I am sure that Miss Edwards was. So she fell into the common fault of trying to cram too much into the time and of therefore speaking too fast, but in spite of that she held the attention with happily chosen illustrative anecdotes and
brightly phrased descriptions of the working of ballet. Miss Beryl Nettleton is to give the second talk. Perhaps she will tell us something of the future of ballet in New Zealand. There is no established company in this country. What, therefore, becomes of all the bright young things who learn dancing, after they have become too gawky to appear in the annual children’s extravaganza, pantomime, or whatnot? Do they become secret ballerinas, flitting solitary sylphs, dancing among the tea-tree of a summer night; do they take to jive; or do they marry and produce more children to learn dancing and take part in the annual extravaganza?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 334, 16 November 1945, Page 9
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218From Dancing to Ballet New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 334, 16 November 1945, Page 9
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