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
Kreutzberg in 1950
Yvonne Georgi, 1938
Ruth Page and Harald Kreutzberg, Country Dance, 1934
Harald Kreutzberg, The Dance of the Fools, 1927
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
Harald Kreutzberg
…well received, he decided to enroll in dance classes. Kreutzberg trained at the Dresden Ballet School and studied with the founders of Ausdruckstanz, Mary Wigman and Rudolf von Laban. The Ausdruckstanz phenomenon of the early to mid-20th century flourished in German-speaking Europe. It grew out of the Lebensreform…
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