Gret Palucca
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Gret Palucca was a German dancer and dance teacher, notable for her dance school, the Palucca School of Dance, founded in Dresden in 1925.
Palucca in 1945
Mary Wigman
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Mary Wigman was a German dancer and choreographer who pioneered expressionist dance, dance therapy, and movement training without pointe shoes. She is considered one of the most important figures in t
Gret Palucca
…attended Margarete Balsat's school for upper-class girls in Dresden. From 1921, when she changed her name to Gret Palucca, until 1923, she studied with Mary Wigman and she performed as a member of her Chamber Dance Group. In 1924, she married Friedrich Bienert, who worked in his father's mills. Through her…
Wigman in 1946
Photograph of German dancer Mary Wigman by Dutch photographer Jacob Merkelbach, 1922
Wigman's dance school building on Bautzner Strasse in Dresden.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Mary Wigman's Dance of Death, 1926–1928