Sunday, March 2, 2014

Mary Wigman Lineage & Influences

Mary Wigman Timeline
1886- BORN

1910 – Trains at school of Rhymithic Gymnastics with Dalcroze

1913 - Age 24 learned how to dance – studied under Rudolf van Laban. (Laban’s work influenced Wigman to work upon a technique based in contrasts of movement; expansion and contraction, pulling and pushing)

1913 - Wigman's first public production was the Hexentanz, performed without music

1914 - Mary Wigman performed her first two solos, Lento and Witch Dance I, in Munich. This debut performance was positively received by reviewers who recognized her powerful expressiveness

1918 – Nervous Breakdown, Moved to Switzerland & Developed Absolute Dance. Wigman believed that art grows out of the basic cause of existence


1920 – Started School is Dresden (“Dresden Central School” or “Mary Wigman Schule”)

1923 – Mary Wigman Company’s first appearance in Germany

1926 - Wigman performed a second version of her choreography in Dresden: Witch Dance II. (Witch Dances Philosophy: the archaic figure of the witch as the ultimate expression of the choreographer's own artistic identity. popular association of the image of a witch with the fear and nervousness of losing control over one's own body and mind, a fear that even extended to the spectator of a dance performance.)

1928 – Company’s London Debut

1931-1933 – Company Tours America & Hanya Holm opens a branch of the School in New York City in 1931

1941 – School was considered Degenerate Art by Nazi regime and lost school in Dresden

1942 – Wigman’s last soloist work that she performed in was “The Dance of Niobe”

1949 – Moved to West Berlin and continued Teaching

1973 – Died at Age 86



Timeline of Influences



1909 - Arnold Schoenberg and his pupils Alban Berg and Anton Webern invented atonal music

1913 – Emil Nolde, an expressionist painter, and Mary Wigman became Friends

1923 - Arnold Schoenberg and his pupils Alban Berg and Anton Webern invented twelve-tone music

1923 – Mary Wigman Company and collaborators from Eurooe consisted of: Yvonne Georgi, Hanya Holm, Harald Kreutzberg, Gret Palucca, Max Terpis, Irena Linn, Elisabet Wiener, Sonia Revid, Margarethe Wallmann, Inge Weiss, and Meta Vidmar.

1923 - Freuds discovery of the Psyche

1927-Collaborated with Opera-dancer Ursula Cain, who at the age of more than 80 years could still be seen on stage and TV dancing in cross-genre projects like Dancing with Time by Heike Hennig, was another student of the Mary Wigman.

1930 - Meta Vidmar established the first school of modern dance in Slovenia
1933 - Hitler's rise to power – Purging Germany of Degenerate Art of all kind. While modern styles of art were prohibited, the Nazis promoted paintings and sculptures that were traditional in manner and that exalted the "blood and soil" values of racial purity, militarism, and obedience. Similarly, music was expected to be tonal and free of any jazz influences; films and plays were censored.

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