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The Art of Dancing; Its Theory and Practice, by F Library of Congress The art of dancing; its theory and practice, by F. Leslie Clendenen. Drawings by Mrs. Clendenen. Intended for amateurs as well as for professional teachers .. Dedicated to the Lovers of our Art, Who feel the need of a Helping Hand, to guide them in their work THE ART OF DANCING ITS THEORY AND PRACTICE By F. Leslie Clendenen. Drawings by Mrs. Clendenen. Intended for Amateurs as well as for: Professional Teachers in Schools, Colleges, Seminaries or Academies, where Dancing and Health Culture are Taught. Fully Explaining the Foundation and How to Teach, Interpretative, Classic, Pantomime, Egyptian, Greek, and Toe Dancing. Also Health Dancing and Exercises. Copyrighted by F. LESLIE CLENDENEN, 5530–40 Vernon Avenue, St. Louis, Mo . JUN 10 1919 © CLA515814 MEMBER American National Asso . Imperial Society of London . The art of dancing; its theory and practice, by F. Leslie Clendenen. Drawings by Mrs. Clendenen. Intended for amateurs as well as for professional teachers .. http://www.loc.gov/resource/musdi.045 Library of Congress Chicago Association , Ex. Pres. Inter. Association . St. Louis Association . Author Treatise on Classical Dancing, Plays, Etc . PREFACE There are fewer Germs in the air of a wellkept sewer than in many of our Poorly Ventilated School Rooms, Offices and Street Cars . Seven PREFACE The world of today needs stronger men and women—men and women who are 100 per cent strong . We have just won the greatest war known in history, a war that was won by efficiency, and physical excellence . Realizing this to be a fact, let us ask ourselves if we are all in the proper condition physically? Are our schools properly preparing our sons and daughters for our daily battles? Are they getting 100 per cent exercises in our schools ? The writer believes that much good can be accomplished by our Dancing Masters teaching our children corrective exercises . and insisting that the public schools instruct the child in Nature Exercises and Esthetic Dancing . Teach the child how to prevent disease through proper exercises. We will then have no need for the doctor to cure the child after he is in the grip of a disease. The art of dancing; its theory and practice, by F. Leslie Clendenen. Drawings by Mrs. Clendenen. Intended for amateurs as well as for professional teachers .. http://www.loc.gov/resource/musdi.045 Library of Congress Experience has taught the writer that most diseases can be cured through proper exercise. We now have seven children taking our health course, who have been pronounced incurable by the doctors. They have all shown wonderful improvement from the first lesson, and, through daily health exercises, have become strong and healthy. In China, we are told that the physician is hired to keep the family well, and in good health Should a member of the family become ill, the physician's salary stops, until the person is cured. If this method were in vogue in this country, we believe our system of school gymnasium and the medical treatments now in use would undergo a radical change. It is the duty of every teacher to teach the children to be strong, healthy and perfect in body, to teach them how to preserve and to restore , and not to mutilate or destroy, our Creator's gift. The school child cannot have too much strength. Strength does not come in bottles or capsules; it can be had only through the careful practice of the proper exercises: exercises that will build up the entire system. When every muscle and every organ function correctly and satisfactorily, the necessary routine of daily eight studio. After six months' daily practice she returned to the school duties is carried on with much more willingness and pleasure. We believe there are thousands of teachers who realize that there is something lacking in the old method of exercise, as taught in our public schools. Many of our teachers are adopting dance movements, as they realize they are more beneficial to the pupil. During a conversation with the principal of one of our largest teachers' colleges in the East, he made the following remark: “I fully appreciate the fact that our present system is wrong, absolutely wrong. I fully realize that our system is not intended for ladies; I also feel that everlasting injury is being forced upon many a young girl, yet we stand helpless, as we The art of dancing; its theory and practice, by F. Leslie Clendenen. Drawings by Mrs. Clendenen. Intended for amateurs as well as for professional teachers .. http://www.loc.gov/resource/musdi.045 Library of Congress have nothing better, and the school boards are demanding that every child must have exercise; exercise must be taken regardless of the girl's condition.” When will fathers and mothers rally to the cause and effect of exercise? We believe the day near when our schools will adopt the exercises and system of the Egyptian; the esthetic movements will then replace the dangerous appliances in every gymnasium. We believe the time is near when our teachers of dancing will be looked to for health; our schools will be compelled to make bonfires of much of their apparatus now in use, and in its place employ teachers familiar with Nature Cure Exercises. When that time comes our children will graduate with higher honors, and not be old men and women and nervous wrecks as so many are now. Corrective exercise increases the power of mind and body; it will build up a run down system, it will cure nervousness and stomach troubles, it strengthens the vital organs and clears the brain of every girl and boy, and it will help every child reach the highest pinnacle of mind Supreme . We have had many young ladies come to us at a time when they feared they would be compelled to leave school, or were so weak that they could not keep up with their class; after a few weeks of daily practice would note a wonderful change. In one instance a young lady was compelled to return home from an eastern boarding school; she had to be assisted to our Nine a strong, healthy girl. We make no claim in this book to give just the exercise that will cure all ailments—only a foundation for a system that will give your pupils more vitality and strengthen the muscles, making the body more nearly perfect and efficient. The art of dancing; its theory and practice, by F. Leslie Clendenen. Drawings by Mrs. Clendenen. Intended for amateurs as well as for professional teachers .. http://www.loc.gov/resource/musdi.045 Library of Congress It is in our teachers' hands to lift our art out of the fallen channel and place it on the highest pinnacle in the world. In conclusion, let me ask: “Are you thinking along the line of health when instructing? Do you realize that every person can increase his efficiency 20 per cent through proper exercises? Or are you guilty of allowing your classes to leave your academy without exercises that will physically make better men and women of them? Or are you so satisfied in mind as to believe that your system cannot be improved upon? Are you thinking, thinking, planning your lessons so that you give your pupils 100 per cent health value, for 100 per cent cash? Are You Ready To Help Make Our Nation Stronger Physically? F. LESLIE CLENDENEN. Think, conceive the Purest Thoughts of Nature, And you will express them with movements of the body . CHAPTER ONE. Twelve KEY TO CORRECT DANCING. The Five Arm Positions—Five Natural and Extended Arm Positions—French School Arm Positions—Three Body Positions—Inner Soul Expressions—The Five Movements— Attitudes and Arabesques and Their Combinations—Pantomine Attitudes—Technique and French Terms . THE KEY TO CORRECT MOVEMENTS. The art of dancing; its theory and practice, by F. Leslie Clendenen. Drawings by Mrs. Clendenen. Intended for amateurs as well as for professional teachers .. http://www.loc.gov/resource/musdi.045 Library of Congress The following positions and attitudes are as necessary to correct dancing, and health movements, as the notes of music are to the musician . Therefore we term them the A, B, C, of dancing, or basic dance movements . SYNOPSIS. L. F. or L. H. refers to the left foot or hand . R. F. or R. H. refers to the right foot or hand . Pos., the placing of the foot or hand in one of the positions. C. refers to the count of the music. & refers to two movements made in the time of one count. Fw. or Bk., a movement made forward or backward . Rept. refers to the repeating of the movement. C. B. refers to the crossing of the feet, or step across back. C. F. refers to the crossing of the foot in front. S. refers to a side movement. Ex. refers to extended or straight arm or leg movements. F. or B., front or back . Cr., crossed. The art of dancing; its theory and practice, by F. Leslie Clendenen. Drawings by Mrs. Clendenen. Intended for amateurs as well as for professional teachers .. http://www.loc.gov/resource/musdi.045 Library of Congress A step is separating of the feet the distance of the length of the foot, and transferring the weight; unless the weight is transferred It is not a step, only a movement. All positions are made with foot flat on the floor; if pointed it is no longer a common position. The R. side of the stage is at the right side of the person standing on the stage facing the audience.
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