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By the time Mulvaney Gray penned this advice, published in Health & Physical Culture, she was an established performer and teacher of what was predominantly called Grecian dance in Sydney. Trained in Britain, Gray found herself at the tail end of the flowering of what Hillel Schwartz has called a ‘new kinesthetic of the Twentieth Century’ (Schwartz, 1992: 1). Gray’s conflation of naturalism and control were symptomatic of her time. Her concern for the elimination of machine-like, disassociated action and her coupling of Natural Movement and antiquity, were also a product of her education and development as a dancer in the 1920s.
… and when at last we shall cease to move about jerkily and nervously, and through the medium of the real dance, as the Greeks taught it, learn to substitute calm, natural movements, then we shall definitely gain tremendous control over our nerves.
(Gray, 1930: 6)
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Card, A. (2011). Tethering the Flow: Dialogues between Dance, Physical Culture and Antiquity in Interwar Australia. In: Carter, A., Fensham, R. (eds) Dancing Naturally. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230354487_11
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