Dancing, as a Means of Physical Education: With Remarks on Deformities, and Their Prevention and CureD. Bogue, 1851 - 56页 In her strong defense of dance and its application to female physical education, Mrs. Webster declares that dancing as exercise "is the very best safeguard against the evils of over mental education." While she approves of calisthenics and various mechanical apparatus--including swings and pulleys and a "prone couch"--she delivers a stinging rebuke regarding the wearing of corsets. While Mrs. Webster recommends dance as an excellent remedial exercise, she insists that some parts of classical ballet are ill-designed for effecting good health due to their severity--in particular first and fifth positions. She also considers that dancing is beneficial to boys who, while they generally take more physical exercise than girls, rarely encounter "measured motion". |
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第26页 - When supper was over, the old man gave a knock upon the table with the haft of his knife, to bid them prepare for the dance : the moment the signal was given, the women and girls ran...
第35页 - Three hundred and seventy muscles, organs of motion, have been robbed of their appropriate action for nine or ten years, and now they have become, alike with the rest of his frame, the prey of near one hundred and fifty diseased and irritable nerves.
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第28页 - I should have look'd upon it now as one of the illusions of an imagination which is eternally misleading me, had not the old man, as soon as the dance ended, said, that this was their constant way ; and that all his life long he had made it a rule., after supper was over, to call out his family to dance and rejoice ; believing, he said, that a chearful and contented mind was the best sort of thanks to heaven that an illiterate peasant could pay Or a learned prelate either, said I.
第43页 - ... controlled. As well may we hope to excel in elegant and graceful Dancing by the daily practice of every awkward attitude. In the one case, as in the other, the organs must not only be associated in action by the command of the will, but also be habituated to the association by the frequency of the practice ; a fact which exposes the ignorant folly of those parents who habitually act with rudeness and caprice towards their children, and then chide the latter for unpolite behaviour towards strangers.
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