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The Makers of Modern Dance in Germany
I Partsch-Bergsohn
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Paperback. This is the story of three passionate choreographers and their colleagues who created European modern dance in the 20th century despite the storms of war and oppression. Num Pages: 102 pages, 26 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1DFG; ASDT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 136 x 9. Weight in Grams: 168.
This is the story of the founders of modern dance in Germany: Rudolf Laban, Mary Wigman, and Kurt Joos, whose work in the first half of the 20th century paralleled the independent development of modern dance in Americawithout being influenced by it. Laban is credited as being the most important innovator and guiding force and is best known as the inventor of Labanotation, a symbolic language for describing movement. Wigman became Laban's student in 1913 at a time when he was earning a reputation as an inspired choreographer and movement director. Joos was a young man of 19 when, hearing ... Read more
This is the story of the founders of modern dance in Germany: Rudolf Laban, Mary Wigman, and Kurt Joos, whose work in the first half of the 20th century paralleled the independent development of modern dance in Americawithout being influenced by it. Laban is credited as being the most important innovator and guiding force and is best known as the inventor of Labanotation, a symbolic language for describing movement. Wigman became Laban's student in 1913 at a time when he was earning a reputation as an inspired choreographer and movement director. Joos was a young man of 19 when, hearing ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Princeton Book Company United States
Number of pages
102
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780871272508
SKU
V9780871272508
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99-14
About I Partsch-Bergsohn
Isa Partsch-Bergsohn is a former student of Mary Wigman. She is currently a professor of dance at the University of Arizona. Harold Bergsohn began his photographic career in 1950 at the New York Herald Tribune. They live in Tucson, Arizona.
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