Principia School - Blade Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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rhythln in tuition The newest ol' the new things that the XV. A. A. has triecl this year is eurhythmic clancing, untler the ilirection oil .Wiz Frank Parker, Uiseur . Alreatly a group ol' the younger clancers has matle its tirst pulmlic appearance at an exhilmition given for the University City lligh School. Aml the Uiseur himsell' is now planning to present his company of selectecl artists to entertain a family group on the Pi Delta Kappa evening in Flay, with the music of Brahms antl Chopin. lfurhythmics came into lacing when a French musician, lfmile Iacques-lJalcroze, tiountl a way to give his pupils a true appreciation of music. lle lwelievecl that music reaches the listener through the senses, through the vilmrancy oti rhythm. lle saicl that the elements ot' music, rhythm anal clynamics, which 'Rlepentl entirely on movement anal tintl their counterpart in our muscular activity, coultl lie most feelingly expresseml in the rhythmic motion of the hotly. The musician then inventecl some exercises in marching, with arm-movements, anal movements ol' the hotly, lor the purpose oli training the muscles to contract anml relax rhythmically antl spontaneously to music. l llllllli no artist who has thought anal olmserveml will mleny that a conscientious stucly oll rhythm in all its llorms tentls to a more lively unmlerstancling ol' art which is marle up equally of imagination, thought, anal emotion. Shoulcl the clancing ol' Principia artists convey to its auclience some leeling ol emotion which they have felt in the rhythm of music, whether or no it reaches the lull expression ol' art, it shall have liultilletl its mlesignecl purpose. V