«It wee the period when ebthubes and Pht Lesophors in Germany and
England were developing the theory of empathy, when is«dore. Tuneen wee
_ throwing Off the shackles of dend conventions and restoring the dance —
ta the ronks of ereative art, when in Russia btentslaveky wee seeking
for realien in the setor's ert and Fokine for expressiveneweiin the deneer tas
if eli thie was going book to na ture y it wes not a retrograde step in time
or progress, but © return to operative prineiples from whieh there had been
serious deflections, ¢ return fron ebetrections to ronlity,

i would be a brave soul whe would neintatn thet the need for getting
back te baste things has dintnished in the intervening yenrs, and it would
be & fairly syopte one who would deny thet grent progress hes been nade
toverd meeting the nood, The folledance prosente one illumineting exe
‘apple, ter where it wee norely being recorded to eave it from extinetion
forty years O60 ‘todey it is being daneged actively by «hole strata of the —
populetion £ for whom at is not alone & restoration but o revelations —

Tt is ® noalthy thing to release the seoial dance from @ total pree |
oseupstion with sox» Though the courts ip danse has an ancient and honorable —
funetion, there are other functions for denoings as woll, Our modern life —
in which we ore constantly being throun with orovde has bred an unhealthy
defensiveness ngainet social foregethoringss wa heve met each other so
mmeh on masse under conditions of strese and rivelry that we hove set up

 

@ kind of compensa tory habit of ietiationisn that has kept us from mowing
eash other as fellows and neighbors. We ean make good use of these large