Sunday, March 23, 2014

Mary Wigman's Influences & Collaborations In Germany

Timeline of Influences In Germany



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 Europe 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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