Recognition
What a joy to learn that Marie-Laurence, Artistic Director of the Dance School: "Dance your Life", who had decided to give Belgium a vocational school allowing to materialize a career in dance, offers us its opening, for the coming season. This center which must bring the essential knowledge to become, not only dancer, but also: performer-artist, with the general culture which must go with! (History of all dances in general, anatomy, especially music, literature, painting, etc. and especially the awakening and thirst for knowledge that must be possessed by all those who want to make a contact profession like dance)!
Classical dance today suffers from a “current” claiming to be renovating, wanting to give a makeover to a Tradition which is indisputably little known to them! It should be known that a true Knowledge, does not undergo the insults of time nor the fashion that them, are temporal!
All the great Masters have always asked to work in an “intelligent way”, to cultivate serenity, analysis, to see the curiosity not to make movements without reason of existence, in short, to do above all, a dance of sharing, (essential), not a "selfish exhibition dance"!
I wish Marie-Laurence to have the strength to materialize her project well, to surround herself well with the necessary courage, because she has the youth and the passion to carry it out, especially at a time when dancing classic is so bad!
I am sending you a copy of a letter from Anna Pavlova addressed to her Master Enrico Cecchetti :
At a time when people do not understand that to teach others, you must first have worked very hard yourself, and acquired real experience and or anyone can be called teacher of
dance and open a dance school where we teach everything except real dance ...
Anna Pavlova, (London 1911)
When we tackle trying to move the habits that have been created over time, "we disturb", so be aware that we will find a negative current against which we must prepare, but as my Master said: The First Truth, we can slow it down, but we cannot ignore it! (B. Nijinska) With all my affection JG
PS Agripina Vaganova, to a deep respect for the teaching and the Knowledge of Enrico Cecchetti, She will write that Cecchetti has enormous importance in the history of Russian Ballet!
PS I would like ... No! I want!!! Does that remind you of something?