So it comes before us like the Eastern dancer who slowly unwinds the shimmering veil that floats around her as she dances, and for one flashing supreme moment of the dance bears no veil at all.
Take this hint from the dancer," a distinguished American dancer has said, "the fewer clothes the better; woman is clumsy because she is overweighted with clothes.
And shortly after I read of a young German dancer in a small Paris theatre who in the course of her dance is for a few moments absolutely naked, whereupon the Chief of Police sends for her and draws up a charge of "outrage aux moeurs.
As she danced, when I noted the spectators, I could see here and there a gleam in the eyes of coarse faces, though there was no slightest movement or gesture or look of the dancer to evoke it.
Military Dance from Sculpture in Vatican, Greek Dancer with Castanets.
Philip of Macedon married Larissa, a dancer, and the dancer Aristodemus was ambassador to his Court.
There is not even the art of the ordinary ballet-dancer discernible in these proceedings.
It may astonish the reader to know that the funambulist or rope-dancer was very expert with the Greeks, as also was the acrobat between knives and swords.
A dancerrises suddenly, spontaneously, as if seized by the passion of the music.
The dancer is alive to her fingertips, and every expressive movement has the Spanish simplicity of emphasis.
Then the singer starts a new song, the clapping is taken up again, another dancer comes forward, and a new drama is acted.
Standing before him with a piece of tawdry gauze about her quite unprepossessing form stood the over aged dancer with a set simper upon her silly vacant face.
This Dangenancour was a dancer at the opera-house, whom I had desired to meet previously to my last departure from Paris.
As you know, I was a dancer at the Comedie Italienne, and I was the mistress of M.
I warned him that in three or four days after the receipt of my letter he would be accosted by a Bolognese dancer and her mother, bearing a letter of commendation.
She told me that if the Corticelli would work hard her husband would make a great dancer of her, as her figure was eminently suited for dancing.
I collected my thoughts, and the lady turned out to be a dancer whom I had admired on the Dresden boards eight years before.
Four or five days after the ball night, Agatha came to tell me that the manager of the Alexandria Theatre had asked her if she would take the part of seconddancer throughout the carnival time.
Instinct drew me to the mother I have remarked on, and I asked her to whom the dancerthat interested me belonged.
But once he was in the ball-room, he could waltz about as well as the best dancer there.
Each dancer was in full regalia, like the ladies who ride the padded horses in the regular circus, their dresses of tissue paper being ornamented with purple, gold, and red hues.
The rope-dancer does not dance by Induction, any more than the dancing dog does.
Maroney made his appearance, but paid no attention to the poor immigrant, whom he considered beneath his notice.
It would not do while assuming his present character to travel by rail.
They look upon the ballet girl, whether she be a dancer or merely below the line of utility, as legitimate prey, and without the slightest scruple will waylay or spread a net to catch her in some quiet but successful manner.
If he has money and they know it they will not take him to their home, but to some lodging-house with the proprietor of which the cancan dancer is acquainted, and whom she knows she can trust.
The husband was astounded; the wife was boiling over with rage; the dancer did not know what to make of it.
A dancer stood in the wings listening to the prattle of a silly old man.
He sees the cancan dancer again the next night but she knows nothing about it.
His feelings were something like those of an old dancer at the theatre, who is dancing for the last time, and knows that on the morrow she will be in her garret, alone and forgotten.
He thought of the elegant little dancer whom he should never see again, and the words of the song sounded in his ears-- "Farewell, warrior!
Only the tin soldier and the dancer remained in their places.
You will still have the same floating gracefulness of movement, and no dancer will ever tread so lightly; but at every step you take it will feel as if you were treading upon sharp knives, and that the blood must flow.
She was light, but he was lighter still; she had never seen such a dancer before.
But of the little dancer nothing remained but the tinsel rose, which was burnt black as a cinder.
The dancer is supposed to be dying; his long black hair covers his face; it is suddenly brushed aside to show him in convulsions; his body writhes like a snake's; he is dying hard.
Soon after the dancer came out, when the women forgot to look at me, so interested were they in him.
The rope-dancer or the acrobat must be perfect in technique before he appears on the stage at all; in his case, a lapse from perfection brings its own penalty, death perhaps; his art begins when his technique is already perfect.
A dance, performed faultlessly and by a dancer of temperament, is as beautiful, in its own way, as a performance on the violin by Ysaye or the effect of an orchestra conducted by Richter.
At last she came, the great desert dancer said to be the most beautiful Ouled Nail of her generation.
Sanda's cheeks, which had been pale, brightened to carnation as she read; but the dancer held all eyes.
If Sanda decides to behave herself I'll drop thedancer at her own place, en route.
It was just possible, for he had stepped close to the tent in barring the dancer away from it.
Oh, well, anyhow, to make a long story short, the girl flew into one of those black rages of the petted dancer men have made a damned fuss over, and she disappeared.
Max turned from the dancer without replying, and she hovered near while he spoke at the door of Sanda's tent, within which the light had now gone out.
Then the exhausted dancerfell and was dragged from the circle, and the fresh recruit gladly surrendered himself to the strenuous exertions of the dance.
When a dancerbecame tired he stooped over, and one of the onlookers, who were waiting to take advantage of such an emergency, immediately pretended to drive an arrow through him.
From time to time a dancer would rush excitedly into the center of the circle and tell his part in bringing success and glory to the expedition.
Early in life she married an actor of the name of Dancer, and it was as Mrs Dancer that she made her first recorded appearance in 1758 as Cordelia to Spranger Barry's Lear at the Crow Street theatre.
So sighed the Emperor Commodus for a two-story place in history, and went on the stage as a dancer and gladiator.
May this latter dancer live and stay pretty, till you see her, my dear General!
But Judith the dancer prays to a spirit More white than Apollo and all of his train.
And then the white sweet Russian, The dancer of the age.
I know a dancerwho finds the true Godhead, Who bends o'er a brazier in Heaven's clear plain.
In Southern India a devil-dancer "drinks the blood of the sacrifice, putting the throat of the decapitated goat to his mouth.
When Zarathustra arrived at the nearest town which adjoineth the forest, he found many people assembled in the market-place; for it had been announced that a rope-dancer would give a performance.
The dancer wore no shoes, and Bobby guessed why she had been so elusive, why she had left so few traces.
Yet at first he could scarcely accept this pitiful creature as the brilliant and exotic dancer with whom he had dined the night of the first murder.
It was impossible to fancy the brilliant, colourfuldancer in this black, shadowy thing.
Then Graham would have some ground for his suspicion of Paredes and thedancer Maria.
I'm awfully exacting in the matter of dancing, and if you're not a good dancer it would go far to spoil our pleasant acquaintance.
It was a joy to Patty to dance with Cameron, for he was by all odds the bestdancer she had ever met.
He always smiled pleasantly as they passed, and the fact that he was a magnificent dancer only made Patty feel more angry with herself at having been so silly.
She had implied that she was such a fine dancer she didn't care to dance with any one unskilled in the art.
Frances taught us to dance that winter, and she said, from the first lesson, that Antonia would make the best dancer among us.
It was the old story: 'Someone had blundered' and left the trap door unbolted, and London's favorite dancer had danced upon it and gone down to the depths beneath.
Surely since Taglioni there has been no more graceful dancer than Finetta, and even Yorke, with his heart soaring miles away to the flower-faced girl who owned it, could not but look and admire.
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