The evening
included a number of solos
one of which was La Grande Valse by
François Malkovsky who formulated his
concept of new dance in the early years of the
201h century. His artistic research was part of
the Paris School and he developed what he
preferred to call an 'art of living' rather than
an 'art of movement' - he taught a physical
mastery which was, in principle, natural and
open to everyone yet remained 'artistic'
.
The Grande
Valse was created in the late thirties and in
but a 1948 programme was subtitled with a verse
from Rabindranath Tagore:
"
Freed from the bonds of the sleeping earth
Joy
makes her spring into infinity.
"
- La
Grande Valse Brilliant Op. 18
Lyrical,
delicate and full of "joie de
vivre".
Jean
Jarrel
