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
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
Rudolf von Laban
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Rudolf Laban, also known as Rudolph von Laban, was an Austro-Hungarian dance artist, choreographer, and movement theorist. He is considered a "founding father of expressionist dance" and a pioneer of
Mary Wigman
…music, so Wigman decided to take her interests elsewhere. In 1913, on advice from the German-Danish expressionist painter Emil Nolde, she entered the Rudolf von Laban School for Art (Schule für Kunst) on Monte Verità in the Swiss canton of Ticino. Laban was significantly involved in the development of modern expressive…
Laban presenting his system of Labanotation, c. 1929
A group of figures in front of a window, formed by dance students at Laban's Choreographic Institute in Berlin-Grunewald (November 1929).
Young people performing a rhythmic dance at Laban's Choreographic Institute in Berlin-Grunewald (1929).
Rudolf von Laban in the midst of his students (ca. 1929).