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
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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