On July 26, Austin lost a resident with an extraordinary history in dance. As an aspiring dancer in the Forties and Fifties, Rhoda Winter Russell crossed paths with a number of influential ...
When a dancer who is also a “messiah” and a “priestess” sets forth on a transcontinental tour, the continent in question can scarcely ignore. For a messiah gathers disciples and a priestess casts ...
When Mary Wigman did her stark, muscular, barefoot dances before U.S. audiences in the early ’30s, some of the irreverent wrote the exhibition off as prancing, lunging and posturing. But critics wrote ...
Die Tänzerin, Choreographin und Tanzpädagogin Mary Wigman (Hannover 1886 – 1973 Berlin), Laban-Schülerin, gründete 1920 in Dresden eine eigene Schule, in der sie einen neuen Stil, den "Absoluten Tanz" ...