| Description |
102 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Rudolf von Laban -- Munich -- Emile Jaques-Dalcroze -- Monte Verita -- Mary Wigman -- Dance practice at Monte Verita -- The war years -- Dada in Zurich, 1916-1919 -- Laban in Stuttgart -- Kurt Jooss -- Jooss meets his master -- Gleschendorf -- Jooss and Leeder -- Laban in America -- The Folkwang school -- First dancers congress -- Second dancers congress -- Wigman goes it alone, 1920 -- Gret Palucca -- Wigman as a pedagogue -- Hanya Holm -- Berthe Trumpy -- Vera Skoronel -- Yvonne Georgi -- Harald Kreutzberg -- Wigman comes to America -- Wigman and the Nazis -- The Wigman School in New York -- Jooss and the Nazis -- The flight out of Germany -- Jooss in America -- Laban and the Nazis -- Jooss in England -- Life at Dartington Hall -- Laban's rescue -- Laban and Jooss in wartime England -- The art of movement studio -- Wigman : 1945-1949 -- Wigman : the post-communist years -- Jooss : the post-war years -- Jooss in the sixties and seventies -- The legacy |
| Bibliography |
Videography: page 100 |
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Includes bibliographical references (page 101) |
| Subject |
Laban, Rudolf von, 1879-1958.
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Wigman, Mary, 1886-1973.
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Jooss, Kurt, 1901-1979.
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Dancers -- Germany -- Biography.
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Modern dance -- Germany -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Author |
Bergsohn, Harold.
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| LC no. |
2003040490 |
| ISBN |
0871272504 paperback |
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