Excerpt from Nature Dancing: The Poetry of Motion But it is a blissful state to be reached only after training. No figure must be improvised on the spur of the mo ment; the dance, however unconventional and full ot'un restrained joy it may appear to the spectator, must be carefully studied and thought out beforehand, for only in that way can it escape amateurish futility and rise to the domain of real art. Just as the training of the Russian ballet afforded Serova the' technical groundwork of her art so the vase paintings of ancient Greece were her inspiration in work ing out the idea of the Nature Dance which she thinks particularly adapted to the needs of the American public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.