The Pensacola journal., February 27, 1921, SECOND SECTION, Page ELEVEN, Image 11

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ELEVEN
FOLK DANCING TO
ELIMINATE JAZZ
Movement Q rowing With Great Rap
Jdity In England and Glowly
In America.
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By C. K..CUMM1NG.
LONDON, Feb, 26. -The English
folk dance, revival goes on apace. The
mo (it recent mile-stone on the march
buckward towards "Merrle Kngland"
ran the vacation school of folk-song
jrid dance livid In Chelsea, where
more than C50 students from all part
f tho country sang and danced and
frolicked foe a week under tho leader
hip of Mr. Cecil Sharp, the founder
lind iatron aalnt of the movement.
Nor was the more serious business
of lasalng examinations In these gen
tle arts negbcted, fir the certificates
awarded by the folk dance society are
the essential guarantees of Voflcien
cy for "those who desire to pass on
their enjoyment to others.
It was a pleasant experience to
hear thuHo hundreds of young voices
inging th" uu songa, w.ih their fresh.
Urk-l!ke quality, songs which Mr.
fcjharp has collected from so many
dlffeient .countries. That Somerset
ditty, for instance:
"As I walked through the meadows to
take the fresh air,
The flowers were . blooming and
ffay;
I heard a young damsel so sweetly
siiiglng,
iler cheeks like the blossc in In
May."
Or that rollicking: tune of "The
Tfre Sons," with Its tragl-comlc cli
max ;
"Tho miller he was drowned In his
pond.
The spinner was hanged by his yarn,
Al his goose ran away with tho tail
, or one clay,
With his broadcloth under his firm."
And even more pleasant was It to
watch the highly skilled staff of 50
teachers, both men and women, be
longing to tho society, footing tho gay
measures of tho country dances, or
demonstrating the more strenuous,
but beautiful and graceful, movements
of tho Morris, or threading their way
through tho complicated evolutions of
the Sword-dance, with a perfect mas
tery of memory and muscle, which, to
the uninitiated seemed truly marvel
ous. No one, I think, who has ever
seen a good exhibition of these tra
ditional Kngllsh dances, can doubt
that they do constitute a very high
and pure form of art, and are well
worth all possible efforts that can bo
made for their preservation.
It is aJi occasion to take stock of
progress. The Kngllsh Folk Dance
society was started In 11)11 "to dissem
inate a knowledge of Kngllsh folk
dances, folk music and singing games,
and to encourage the pructice of them
In their traditional forms." When Mr.
m Sharp began his great work a few
vi-iiTM before, eountrv dinrlni? tmrl en
tirely died out over a large part of
Kngland, though the Morris, which Is
more of a ceremonial dance, was still
practiced on otoaslon In some places
and there has always been an un
broken tradition of swwd-danclng
among the miners of the north. It was
tho most natural thing In the world
that country dancing should have be
come virtually extinct In the villages,
for nearly every element of Joy and
freedom In village life perished dur
ing the agricultural depression of the
nineteenth century.
Mr. Sharp's efforts began Just In
time and In his patient .researches
throughout the countryside, he saved
many a dance and song from extinc
tion by collecting" them from the
oldest Inhabitants. I well remember
the great Interest aroused by the re
discovery of this treasure of forgot
ten English culture In the years Just
before the society was founded. Ox
ford took up the new Idea with en
thusiasm, and It was no uncommon
thing, round a turn in the road, to
corns upon the unexpected Bight of
some learned Don laboriously practis
ing tho steps of the Morris.
After three years came the war, and
much of the work could only mark
time. But a staff ot 20 teachers from
tho society, under the auspices of the
V. M. C. A. taught the dajices to large
numbers of so'dlers In England and
France, and later on the Rhine, who
benefited greatly in body and mind.
Plnce the war the work has devel
oped by leaps and bounds. . There are
now between 30 and 40 , branches
.throughout the country. Several thou
sand students are attending weekly
classes organized directly by the so
ciety and Its branches. Moro than 230
applications to the last vacation school
bad to be refused owing to lack of
pao. The demand for teachers can
iiardly be supplied. Then, in addition,
the dances ere practiced by CJirl
Cubles, T'.oy Scouts, women's Insti
tutes anil other organizations. They
are very g.-n, rally taught In the ele
mentary Hfhi'Ols nr.d Mr. Sharp told
rn-j recently thtt the board of eduva
tien I now taking active steps to
lmh the matter.
And equally important Is the very
real part wh!-h thw dances are play
ing In th revival of village life, which
1 on of the must notable develop
ments of the past few ysrs. In
i;ioii.-hestershlre, last autumn, I was
t..id by the se ntnry of the socletv,
over 4t) villa g-.'s took part In a com
petition and every, man from the
squire to the blacksmith participat
ed. During fins week 600 persons were
darning In a competition In Cornwall
and about 700 i.i the jfiorth. The way
In which tvre dances have taken hold
proves conclusively that the revival
does not represent the atiempt of an
tiquarians artificially to foijt some
dead thing on the people, but Jhat It
1 simply the Kivlnj back of a form
of artldtie expression which Is native
to 'he English genius and has Its
roots deep In the English cha-ncter.
A great 'deal can be said of the use
fulness of folk-dancing as the easiest
and most agroablo way of promoting
physical culture, I noticed the other
p, In the sword-dances in particu
lar, how every musno was brought
Into play. Nothing could be better
for developing agility and control.
But Mx. SUaxu always stresses rath-
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OF THE U.S.
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er the cultural value of folk -dancing.
In bis view it should nrver 1 con
fused with the sole nee of gymnastics,
but should always be taught ci Rural
ly, grace coming, as it wen tin. v.ires.
It is an art comparable to music and
po ;ry. As he .said recently in an ad.
dress tn the conference of educational
associations in London, art Is a means
of expressing that pert of human na
ture which cannot be stated in words:
where speech ends, art begins. Real
culture can only be produced by set
ting the Imagination free ajid no form
of art can do that better than folk
dancing. In which perfect self-expression
ii achieved.
Mr." Sharp's work Is well-known In
America, especially since his two
years in the Appalachians, where he
found a primitive people with no ed
ucation but a high degree of culture,
rich in folk song and dance, and liv
ing (to use his own words) In a
deeper and truer musical atmosphere"
than he had known 'Sanywhere In the
world". But the story rf the discov
eries he made there Is a story all by
itself, and he has told It In a fas
cinating book.
There are several branches of the
folk dance socitety In America, and not
long ago 12 certificates were conferr
ed on American students. One would
think this number would be multiplied
many times. Who would not want to
dance dances with such enchanting
names: "Shepherds' Hey," "Bobbing
Joe", "None so Pretty", "Lumps of
Plum Pudding", "Gathering Peascods",
"If all the world "Were Paper?" The
fact that the names are not infre
quently blithely irrelevant to any ac
tions indicated by the dances does not
detract from their charm. And the
tunes are as enchanting as the names.
And the dances altogether are an in
fallible cure for ennui or depression or
any similar blights of our modern civ
ilization. Granville Barker has said
of folk -dancing.
"It is not old fashioned because it
never was new. You no more get
tired of it than you get tired of go
ing for i. walk. You never come to
the end of it because, being: an art, it
has no end."
There are 230 different dances to
choose from. And there are two spe
cial reasons why these dances should
appeal to Americans. First, they be
long to us; they are as much a part
of our heritage as Shakespeare. Sure
ly we have much more in common
with English country folk of the six
teenth and seventh centuries than
with Spanish peasants or African ne
groes from whom many of our mod
ern dances are derived. Secondly, the
social character of country dances
bring them directly In line with the
deliberate cultivation of the commu
nity spirit, which has been much to
the front in recent years. They are
rtoup dances. As Mr. Barker has
pointed out, unlike modern dances
they afford not merely self-expression,
but community expression as
well.
Why shoudn't there be a class In
folk-dancing in every town in America?
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