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of the minuet. Then you have your 
country dances — the Highland fling and 
the Morris dances — how prettily they go 
with the costumes of the dancers. 
I think not a little might be done to 
improve dancing in England by having 
it taught in your schools. But it should 
be taught as music is taught , as one 
of the English people is aroused in the art of 
dancing, if only they will learn something 
of the training, something of the behind-the- 
scenes life of a dancer at our Russian Imperial 
theatres, then surely the time must soon 
come to pass when England, like Russia, 
will become a nation of dance-lovers. 
So let me hasten to tell you something of 
of the arts, and not as 
part of the gymnastic 
exercises or the sports and 
amusements of the school. 
Some of your games for 
girls do not improve 
deportment. In hockey, 
for instance, where the girls 
play in a stooping position, 
they may easily lose their 
graceful carriage, which is 
so necessary in a ballroom. 
Would you like to hear 
how w r e Russian dancers 
are trained ? That would 
please me much, for 1 feel 
that if onlv the interest 
our early training. 
Between the ages of 
nine and twelve, or 
thereabouts, boys 
and girls of sufficient 
promise are taken 
into the ballet school. 
Here, I must tell you. 
they receive, not 
only instruction in 
music, dancing, and 
dramatic art, but 
also in the ordinary 
branches of educa- 
tion. In every large 
school, of course, 
when there are man} 
ANNA PAVLOVA IN “ PAPILLON,” 
