ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 พ.ย. 2024
- This footage of Mary Wigman performing 'Sommerdans' has been dated to 1929 by the techniques and the characteristics of her development at that time.
What particularly struck me about this performance is the extraordinary plasticity of her arms and hands.
I think this is the original sound. Silent films could be given the illusion of being with sound by synchronising the footage with a phonograph record. Gaumont’s Chronomégaphone was in operation as early as 1908.
Wigman was a German dancer, choreographer and pioneer of expressionist dance, who also advocated and developed dance therapy.
She was one of the most important figures in the history of European dance, an iconic figure in Weimar Republic German culture.
Her work was praised for translating existential ideas onto the stage.
Enjoy!
![Rare Documentary on the Bolshoi Ballet Academy [1967]](/img/n.gif)
Bellísima!! ver su biografía .
Thank you so much for bringing us more of Mary Wigman's work. I, too was displeased when I read of her actions with respect to the Nazis but if we judged artists by their political acts and their personal lives, how many would pass the ethical muster?
I agree completely about the actions of artists that make us admire their character. But I do not think that having an admirable character is a prerequisite to creating great art. Wagner was a terrible person but his art is great.
+ascenbach1 No, there certainly are some absolutely terrible people and nasty bigots who've created incredible art. But for myself, as someone who experiences a certain work of art, I will always view it within a social context. Ezra Pound was a great poet, but his support of fascism and virulent anti-semitism makes me not really give a damn how great he was. Doubtless Leni Riefenstahl was a talented filmmaker and a pioneer for women in film... but because of her place at a historical moment and what she chose to do, I'd be happy if her work was thrown in the garbage. I don't put WIgman on quite the same plateau of shame as Riefenstahl, but I'm especially disgusted the woman never spoke up after the war and tried to cover up what she had done. Her work exists but I choose to not respect either her or what she created no matter her very real talent.
There are some works that are classified as outstanding that I cannot stomach because of their content. I know that T.S. Eliot was a snob, an anti-Semite and treated his wife terribly. I give him a pass on poems such as Prufrock and the Wasteland, but I draw the line when the content becomes hateful such as in Sweeney Among the Nightingales with its nasty overt anti-Semitism.
If she didn't do what she had to do then she would most likely of been killed.
to act against humans rights as fascist, idiot or just because of being selfish - this is never acceptable. if you decide to be an asshole, you are an asshole. Maybe a great actor - but an asshole.
John and others, the original term for this vein of dance is "Ausdruckstanz," which means Dance of Expression -- not the same meaning as Expressionist, which is a defined art movement.
Thanks so much for this. Do you know what the music is please?
Grande!!!👏👏👏👏💖👍🌹🌿🌹🌿💎💎💎💎💎💎💎
I knew some of her Jewish dancers who she told to leave germany when it became dangerous for them. She kicked them out to save their lives
i didn't know that - thanks for sharing
This is the modern dancing...before the fucking nazis!!!
I miss it a lot!!!!
A great pioneer and artist but I do not respect how she chose to keep her school open by kicking out all the Jewish teachers and students. There are times in life when one has to make tough ethnical situations and she failed that one.
As the Guardian mentions in a story about her: "While her early choreography was not to official taste, she was sufficiently in step with the early Volk-inspired philosophy of the Reich to receive a commission to choreograph a mass Olympic Youth dance for the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. And while she was privately sympathetic to Jewish students in her Dresden school, she didn't rebel against orders to remove Jewish dancers from her company." Moreover, a lot of her financing and public influence came from her close connection to a Nazi-connected arms manufacturer Hanns Benkert. As with many Germans, she made no mention of any of her interactions with the Nazi state after the war and continued on as if nothing happened.
Like Jerome Robbins, talent doesn't equal being a person of morals.
+kabardinka1 imo this woman is not less dreadful than isadora duncan lol
+pediatrapaola Considering your previous opinion of Isadora, that's not saying much! ;)
kabardinka1 isadora? one overweight impostor that never took a serious ballet lesson .
usually l am not so hard but in front isadora l become furious
+pediatrapaola I could do without the weight remarks. Try to remember several Soviet ballerinas you greatly respect would be considered highly "overweight" in today's dance marketplace. There are many great dancers who never took a ballet lesson yet, in turn, impacted ballet and choreography, so I don't see that as a legitimate reason to denigrate them.
This piece doesn't do much for me. I like the complex moving pictures she makes with a group but solo... not interesting enough. Expressive alright, but not interesting!
+Sima Raft yes, i know what you mean - it's the overall arranging of figures in the group that's the thing here.
Que merda ein kkkkk
Perdi 3 minutos da minha vida kkkkkk