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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As a dancer and choreographer, Lehmen is one of the most important contemporary dance artists in Germany. His publications Schreibstück (book and score for 3 groups each in canon form) and Funktionen-Toolbox (for communicative choreographies) attracted international attention. Born in Oberhausen in 1963, Lehmen studied at the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam from 1986 to 1990. From 1990 to 2010 he worked mainly in Berlin and developed numerous solos, group pieces and projects: among others distanzlos, mono subjects, Schreibstück, It’s better to…, Lehmen lernt, which are performed worldwide. In 2010 and 2011 he was a professor at Arizona
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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 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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Born in Riga, the dancer, ballet master and choreographer Henn Haas studied at Vera Fokina’s ballet school and at the Trümpy-Günther School in Berlin from 1926 to 1932 and also took classes with Rudolf von Laban, Mary Wigman and Harald Kreutzberg. From 1938 he worked with his Theatre of Dance in Weimar and Erfurt. After the war, he took over the choreographic direction of the FDGB dance ensemble in the newly founded GDR and worked as a choreographer at the Landestheater Halle. In addition to numerous ballets, he also created choreographies for film and television. The collection contains newspaper articles,
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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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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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