Expressionist dance
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Expressive dance from German Ausdruckstanz, is a form of artistic dance in which the individual and artistic presentation of feelings is an essential part. It emerged as a counter-movement to classica
Mary Wigman (centre), a pioneer of expressionist dance, with students at her Berlin dance studio, 1959.
Loie Fuller 1902.
Ruth St. Denis, the ancient Egyptian, 1910.
Isadora Duncan at the sea front 1915.
Harald Kreutzberg
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Harald Kreutzberg was a Austrian dancer and choreographer associated with the Ausdruckstanz movement, a form in which the individual, artistic expression of feelings or emotions is essential. Though l
Expressionist dance
…trendsetter as a dancer, choreographer and teacher. In her school in Dresden (opened in 1920) she taught Europe's premier aspiring dancers Gret Palucca, Harald Kreutzberg, Jeanna Falk, Dore Hoyer and Yvonne Georgi. Hanya Holm brought her theories to the United States, while Birgit Åkesson went her own way with her dance…
Kreutzberg in 1950
Yvonne Georgi, 1938
Ruth Page and Harald Kreutzberg, Country Dance, 1934
Harald Kreutzberg, The Dance of the Fools, 1927