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Modern Dance in Germany and the United States Crosscurrents and Influences
By Isa Partsch-Bergsohn
Copyright 1994
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First Published in 1995. In Modern Dance in Germany and the United States: Crosscurrents and Influences Isa PartschÂBergsohn discusses the phenomenon of the modem dance movement between 1902 and 1986 in an international context, focussing on its beginnings in Europe and its philosophy as formulated by the pioneers Dalcroze, Laban, Wigman and Jooss. The author traces the effects the Third Reich had... Read more
Chapter I Breaking through to Modernity; Chapter II The Formative Years: the Twenties; Chapter III First Encounters Across The Atlantic; Chapter IV Dance in the Tide of Politics: The Thirties; Chapter V Dance in the Shadow of World War II; chapter VI Dance Following World War II; chapter VII From The Green Table;
Biography
Isa Partsch-Bergsohn was a former student of May Wigman at the Music Academy in Leipzig during World War II. She completed her diploma in dance pedagogy and choreography under Kurt Jooss at the Folkwang-School, Essen, Germany. The author was Professor of Dance at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and is now on the board of the Faculty of Fine Arts. She has also taught courses in European modem dance at the American Dance Festival at Duke University, North Carolina, at the Laban Centre in London, and at the Laban/Bartenieff Institute for Movement Studies in New York.
