The collection is on permanent loan from the Federal Archives Potsdam and includes materials from the ensemble’s scientific documentation centre, which served the choreographers in preparing the dances (e.g. materials on geography and history, dance forms/families, methods, folk dances as well as tapes, photos and newspaper articles). The ensemble emerged from the State Song and Dance Ensemble, the successor to the National Cultural Group of the Free German Youth founded on 1 April 1950. In 1952, the dance ensemble was integrated into the Berlin Volksbühne. When the choir was dissolved in 1962, it was renamed the “State Dance Ensemble of
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The estate of this dance group, which was formerly directly subordinate to the GDR Ministry of Culture, is on permanent loan to the Federal Archives in Potsdam. The ensemble, consisting of a folklore ballet, a choir and a band, was based in Neetzow Castle from 1953 to 1964, and in Neustrelitz from 1964 to 1991. The dance performances were based on traditional and newly developed folk dances. Rosemarie Ehm-Schulz was in charge of the dance group until 1987, then Cornelia Nenz. The collection contains newspaper articles and magazines, programmes, slides and photos as well as audio and film tapes.
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The century of the dance (2019) With this exhibition from 24 August to 21 September 2019 under the motto “Was der Körper erinnert. Zur Aktualität des Tanzerbes” (English: What the body remembers – The relevance of the dance heritage), an attempt was made at the Academy of Arts in Berlin to build a bridge between the tradition of modern dance in Germany, which already spans more than a hundred years, and contemporary dance practice on the basis of selected collections from the dance archives. A showcase on the Tanzarchiv As part of a seminar by Dr Melanie Gruß on the
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Tanzarchiv Leipzig e.V. staff and members are available to advise on artistic projects, from initial ideas for dealing with the cultural heritage of dance to concrete enquiries about more complex research and possible academic advice and dramaturgical support for dance productions. Please send your enquiries about such offers up to project-related cooperations by e-mail to the following address: info@tanzarchiv-leipzig.de. Below you will find some exemplary projects from recent years in which individual members of the Tanzarchiv Leipzig e.V. were more or less directly involved or which were created in cooperation with TAL e.V.. Tanz Digital (2021) Evaluation of the Alliance
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After studying musicology, Petermann came to the Central House of Culture, where he was initially tasked with setting up a department for folk dance. This eventually developed through his dedicated collecting and research activities into the Tanzarchiv Leipzig. Thus, Petermann’s estate also reveals the history of the Tanzarchiv. His correspondence with the Central House for Folk Art, the Academy of Arts as well as dancers and dance institutions in Germany and abroad testifies to his important role in the political-cultural life of the GDR. The Petermann collection also provides insights into a creative, restless personality who was always developing new
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The dance teacher, kinetographer and foster daughter of the German art historian and folklorist Wilhelm Fraengler studied Rudolf von Laban’s dance script with Albrecht Knust at the Folkwangschule in Essen in 1957 and produced many kinetographs, also of folk dances. She worked as a dance teacher and teacher of dance script in Berlin until 1964. Afterwards, together with Fraenger’s widow, she dedicated herself to organising Fraenger’s estate and became the editor of the large Fraenger monographs on Jörg Rathgeb, Hieronymus Bosch and Matthias Grünewald. Her estate includes personal documents, her correspondence, her kinetographic work, magnetic tapes, microfilms, records, slides and
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Both theoretically and practically, Herbert Burchard was concerned with folk, folklore, amateur and social dances and worked mainly in the field of dance epochs and dance classes. From 1927-32 he was dance director of the Dessau Dance Circle. The collection includes numerous notes on folk dance, writings by well-known authors (e.g. Herbert Oetke, Hans Deibel), compositions by Siegfried Schwantes and correspondence. Research
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Coming from the Wandervogel movement, Oetke was active from 1924 as a collector of folk dances and melodies and published numerous essays on traditional folk art and folk dance collections. From 1945, together with Aenne Goldschmidt, he helped to build up the “State Folk Art Ensemble” of the GDR. He was able to publish his extensive work “Der deutsche Volkstanz” in two volumes in the GDR in 1982. His collection contains material on folk dance and Oetke’s own work. Research
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