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The makers of modern dance in Germany : Rudolph Laban, Mary Wigman, Kurt Jooss / by Isa Partsch-Bergsohn and Harold Bergsohn.
Van Pelt Library GV1785.A1 P26 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Partsch-Bergsohn, Isa.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Laban, Rudolf von, 1879-1958.
- Laban, Rudolf von.
- Wigman, Mary, 1886-1973.
- Wigman, Mary.
- Jooss, Kurt, 1901-1979.
- Jooss, Kurt.
- Dancers--Germany--Biography.
- Dancers.
- Modern dance.
- History.
- Germany.
- Modern dance--Germany--History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 102 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Hightstown, NJ : Princeton Book Co., [2003]
- Contents:
- Rudolf Von Laban 1
- Munich 5
- Emile Jaques-Dalcroze 7
- Monte Verita 8
- Mary Wigman 9
- Dance Practice at Monte Verita 11
- The War Years 13
- Dada in Zurich, 1916-1919 14
- Laban in Stuttgart 16
- Kurt Jooss 17
- Jooss Meets His Master 18
- Gleschendorf 21
- Jooss And Leeder 23
- Laban in America 24
- The Folkwang School 25
- First Dancers Congress 26
- Second Dancers Congress 27
- Wigman Goes It Alone, 1920 30
- Gret Palucca 31
- Wigman As A Pedagogue 36
- Hanya Holm 37
- Berthe Trumpy 39
- Vera Skoronel 40
- Yvonne Georgi 42
- Harald Kreutzberg 44
- Wigman Comes to America 46
- Wigman and the Nazis 51
- Mary Wigman 1944: A Recollection / Isa Partsch-Bergsohn 54
- The Wigman School in New York 55
- Jooss and the Nazis 61
- The Green Table 61
- The Flight Out of Germany 64
- Jooss In America 65
- Laban And The Nazis 66
- Jooss In England 70
- Life at Dartington Hall 71
- Laban's Rescue 75
- Laban Meets F.C. Lawrence 75
- Laban and Jooss in Wartime England 76
- The Art of Movement Studio 77
- A Night to Remember Leipzig, February 4, 1945 / Isa Partsch-Bergsohn 79
- Wigman: 1945-1949 80
- Wigman: The Post-Communist Years 81
- Jooss: The Post-War Years 83
- Kurt Jooss 1948: An Impression / Isa Partsch-Bergsohn 86
- Jooss in The Sixties and Seventies 88
- The Legacy 92
- Laban 92
- Jooss 93
- Wigman 94.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 101).
- Includes filmography: page 100.
- ISBN:
- 0871272504
- OCLC:
- 51306925
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