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In the Driftway
February 1, 1933 issue

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To Shan-Kar and his group of Hindu dancers who are one of the current exotic sensations of New York, the body is an instrument more various and subtle in its possibilities for artistic expression than the keyboard of a Steinway or the range of colors available to a painter's brush. To watch Shan-Kar as he moves through the ritualistic dances of an ancient civilization is to be made aware of the body as a beautifully tempered, perfectly controlled medium of complicated expression. For the harried Westerner, fresh from the raucous depths of a modern subway, it is no easy matter to slip into a world so alien as Shan-Kar's. Indian music subdued, stylized, minor, and unhurried falls on the strenuous Western mind like rain on a raging torrent.

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ARTISTS; ENTERTAINERS; INDIANS -- Music; PAINTERS; CIVILIZATION; NEW York (State); UNITED States
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