of watching her dance, whether at Madame Silvi's recitals or at the American University of Beirut. Even those who have not seen her dance can imagine what leaping sensations lie behind her graceful movement and her proud, elegant advance — it is enough that she welcome you, or invite you to sit down, for you to feel in the turn of her foot... "Pierrot and Columbine."

Exercises for stretching the legs

you, in the flood of virgin shyness, that ballet has given her much confidence in herself, and much harmony among the members of the body. If anything troubles her, it is a tendency of the calf muscles to thicken...

She aspires to become one day a ballerina of world rank, and by way of preparation she will travel next year to England to complete her studies for three years. And if in the end she chooses ballet as her profession, it will be in England, not in Lebanon — there where public opinion's view of the arts is lofty and respectful...

"Pierrot and Columbine."

And in her withdrawings, then in the play of her face with every shade of meaning, and in her retreat into far-off thought — what a ballerina Valerie Sarruf will make!

And this budding young girl assures

The development of the "Attitude"

From the left: Nadia Saikali, Leila Rbeiz, Mona Haddad, and Valerie Sarruf