English Ballet When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that. Long ago in the primeval past, men linked movement to music and dancing was born. But while dancing is one of the earliest forms of self-expression known to man, ballet appears as an art-form in our era only in the sixteenth century, long after painting, drama and music have severally established themselves. Properly speaking, ballet is not an art at all, but a fusion of the various arts of drama, painting, music and movement, a fusion more subtle than any yet devised by man, but in its essence ephemeral—created at each performance and dissolved at each performance. Greek choral dancing meant much to the Greeks but it means nothing to us, while Greek drama enshrined in a noble language is still with us. Because of this transient quality of the dance the achievements of the last twelve years in England may well become only a memory, unless a solid basis of tradition is established to carry on and keep alive the new creations of the English School, now emerging for the first time since the days of Inigo Jones and the masques given at King Charles I's - Court. Job, The Rake's Pro­gress, Checkmate, Lady into Fox, Facade, Dante Sonata, Hamlet and half a dozen more are the advance guard of a new school, now coming into being. Their roots lie deep in the past. This piece of art was created by Janet Lepper and dedicated to J. Armstrong, N. Benois, W. chappell, R. Furse, L. Hurry, E.Mck. Kauffer, O. Messel, J. Piper and to the memory of REX WHISTLER. General sponsor is cardel Article English Ballet was readed 7529 times.