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...dancing," Miss Rand stated, "is not created for that purpose. It is rather a feeling, a moment of beauty that I have experienced, that I wish to communicate to an audience through my dancing. I am a ballet dancer...
...Miss Rand adjusted several small vials on her dressing table. "Take my fan dance for example. One night when I was very young I saw a group of herons, flying in the moonlight. It gave me a feeling of ecstacy, of beauty, of emotion. It is this feeling that I should like to pass on to the people...
...Miss Rand is quick to point out that many girls have copied her dance, even to the point of using Debusay and Chopin for the background music. "But it isn't the same. After all," she says, "it's the motivation that counts...
Still, with all the glamour and the fame of the stage, Miss Rand is not completely happy. "There is a desire in the artist," she says, "to create and to have her work seen." Because of commercial demands, Miss Rand has been forced to abandon such things as Griffith's "White Peacock," one of the four Roman musical sketches which she has always wanted to dance...
There are other facets of her life which one might think were unpleasant. The idea of doing show after show with just a little break might be thought boring, but Miss Rand says, "To me dancing is just like playing tennis and reading a book at the same time. An intellectual and physical experience which never tires...