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Show 58 THE CODE OF TERPSICHORE. and cadence8 of the accompaniment; and all your movements are made in strict accord with the rythmus of the tune9. Music and drawing will afford you much facility in composition also, as whatever be your genius and creative powers of imagination, one thing is certain, your productions cannot easily fail of being correct. CHAPTER II. STUDY OF THE LEGS. IN the management of your legs, endeavour chiefly to acquire a facility of turning them completely. To this end make yourself easy about your hips, that your thighs may move with freedom, and your knees turn well outwards. All the openings of your legs are thus rendered easy and graceful. By dint of practice and attention, you will be able to accomplish this without any painful efforts. A dancer whose hips are much contracted, and whose legs cannot turn entirely out, is never esteemed; as by these defects his performance is deprived of its greatest charm. But one that is gifted with freedom and pliancy, that exhibits a foot well attached to the instep, and the points of which are strong, elastic, and low, has a very delightful appearance. |