One of Mary Wigman’s most famous students was Gret Palucca, who soon achieved a similar level of fame as a solo dancer and also established her own school in Dresden in 1925. After the Second World War, she was able to re-found and expand her school and educate generations of dancers – despite constant conflicts with cultural functionaries of the GDR – not only physically but also spiritually and artistically to creativity and independence. As a founding member of the Academy of Arts of the GDR, she was its vice-president from 1965-1970, which is why Palucca’s actual estate is in
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Irina Pauls received her dance training at the Palucca Schule Dresden and then studied choreography at the “Hans Otto” Theatre Academy in Leipzig. In 1985 she was appointed ballet director at the Landestheater Altenburg in Thuringia. In 1990 she founded the TanzTheater at Schauspiel Leipzig, which was closed in 1998 due to cost-cutting measures. After a two-year stay in the USA financed by a scholarship, she took over the Tanztheater in Oldenburg in 1998 and became director of the dance department at the Stadttheater Heidelberg in 2000. After working as director of the dance theatre cooperation between the theatres in
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Overview of the collections In addition to a wide range of books and periodicals, the collections include numerous photographs, films, videotapes, DVDs, and sound recordings, as well as a large collection of programmes and posters and individual estates and bequests containing a wide variety of documents and media. The internationally prominent personal collections include: the estate of the dance revolutionary Rudolf von Laban (until his exile in 1938); partial collections on Mary Wigman and Gret Palucca; photos, documents, and masks of the “red” dancer and choreographer Jean Weidt; the estates of the dance teachers Jenny Gertz and Ilse Loesch; and
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Dance Archive Leipzig GDR Petermann Laban Wigman Palucca Weidt Rudolstadt Moscow Folk Dance Dance Ensembles Documentation VDT Collections Research Reading Room Böhme Gertz Loesch History Association Publications AG ARCHIVE Projects Research Catalogues Kalliope Visit Lehmen Scholz Pauls Kinetography Posters Records Photos Films Masks Programs FID Body Politics Movement Choirs LIGNA Conferences Seminars Workshops NFDI4C Office Consulting Contact Dance Archive Leipzig GDR Petermann Laban Wigman Palucca Weidt Rudolstadt Moscow Folk Dance Dance Ensembles Documentation VDT Collections Research Reading Room Böhme Gertz Loesch History Association Publications AG ARCHIVE Projects Research Catalogues Kalliope Visit Lehmen Scholz Pauls Kinetography Posters Records Photos Films Masks
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