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W.Sorrel “The Dancer’s Image”. – Columbia University Press, 1999. P. 319.

Dance and Poets

At the age of fourteen Hans Christian Andersen participated in the production of a ballet and his first part was to be “an anonymous goblin in a corps of goblins”. Shortly afterwards he was in the ballet Armida, in which he held a small part. He was a spirit, he relates in his autobiography, and saw his name in print for the first time. He already visualized himself immortalized: “I was continually looking at the printed paper. I carried the program bill of the ballet to bed with me at night, was lying there and read my name by candlelight - in short I was happy!”

Afterwards he did not give up his attachment to the dance. Very early in his life he developed a special gift. He could cut out things in paper with a pair of scissors, and in almost all his paper cutouts little dancing figures play a major part. Even trees are gracefully bent and non-dancing figures are always in motion. Moreover, it is not coincidence that Andersen’s first book with Fairy Taleswas published in1835, at the height of Romanticism, when the choreographers thirsted for the kind of material that was hidden in Andersen’s stories. At that time he influenced them far more indirectly than in our own era when his story ofThe Red Shoes became a climactic point in cinematic ballet and Stravinsky found inspiration inThe Ice Maiden which turned intoLe Baiser de la Fée, andThe Nightingalewhich reappeared in the form of opera and ballet. George Balanchine’s advice to parents who wish to prepare their children for a dance career was: “I would suggest reading the child fairy stories . . . by all means read the stories of the great Hans Christian Andersen. I don’t mean Andersen’s stories oor any others, as they are watered down, especially translated and condensed for children. Good fairy stories were always written for intelligent people.”

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