Shirlee Dodge collection of Mary Wigman materials 1922-1989

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Shirlee Dodge collection of Mary Wigman materials 1922-1989

http://archives.nypl.org/dan/18492

Shirlee Dodge (1916-2008) was a dancer, choreographer, and instructor who earned degrees in performance and instruction from the Mary Wigman School in Dresden, Germany in 1939. Mary Wigman (1886-1973) was a pioneer dancer, choreographer, and instructor in expressionist dance, often cited as a founder of modern dance in Europe. This collection documents Dodge's relationship with her former instructor, Mary Wigman, and contains materials collected to illustrate Wigman's dance and teaching career, including brochures, conference materials, correspondence, photographs, press clippings, programs, scrapbooks, printed materials, and miscellaneous materials in German.

.67 linear feet; 2 boxes

The New York Public Library. Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

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Wigman, Mary, 1886-1973

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Mary Wigman, German modern dancer and choreographer, was born Mary Wiegmann, November 13, 1886 in Hanover. She trained first with Emile Jaques-Dalcroze in Hellerau and Dresden and later with Rudolf von Laban in Anscona, Switzerland and in Munich. Her debut as a concert dancer and choreographer occurred in 1919. Successful performances encouraged her to open her own school in Dresden, where among her first students were Yvonne Georgi, Gert Palucca, and Harald Kreutzberg. By 1925, her students inc...

H'Doubler, Margaret Newell, 1889-

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Kreutzberg, Harald, 1902-

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Dodge, Shirlee, 1916-2008.

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Shirlee Dodge Shirlee Helen Dodge was born on April 29, 1916, in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin. In the late 1920s, Dodge performed acrobatic dances in local vaudeville shows with her sister, Doris. Dodge attended the University of Wisconsin, the first university to offer a degree in dance, in 1934 where she studied with Margaret H'Doubler. In the late 1930s, Dodge studied at the Mary Wigman School in Dresden, Germany, where she graduated with degrees in education and performance in 1939...