Scrapbooks: Clippings and photographs, 1930-61.

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Scrapbooks: Clippings and photographs, 1930-61.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84609384

6 v. illus., ports. 30-43 cm.

New York Public Libraries for the Performing Arts, Dance Collection

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New York Wigman School of the Dance.

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Tanzgruppe Mary Wigman.

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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...