The founder of modern dance in Germany, Mary Wigman began her dance career in Émile Jaques-Dalcroze’s school of rhythmic gymnastics in Hellerau. In 1912 she left Hellerau and became a pupil and collaborator of Rudolf von Laban in Ascona, Munich and Zurich. Wigman’s work as one of the best-known dancers and choreographers of expressive dance contributed greatly to the establishment of dance as an independent art form. In 1920 she opened her school in Dresden, which she continued to run until 1942. During the war she moved to Leipzig, where she continued to teach under increasingly difficult conditions. In 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 physical education, mathematics and physics, Anger took dance lessons with Mary Wigman and worked for decades as a dance teacher. She finished her studies in 1934, from then until 1945 she was a sports assistant at the Technical University of Dresden and later artistic director of the dance ensemble of the Central FDJ Students’ Club of the TU Dresden. Anger’s work was mainly devoted to amateur stage dance. From 1951 onwards, she belonged to various dance societies such as the SAG, BAG, VDO and ZAG. The collection contains personal documents, notes, correspondence, programmes and other materials (1955-1990). Research
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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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Institut für Theaterwissenschaft, Universität Leipzig Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig FID Darstellende Kunst CCT Centre of Competence for Theatre VDT Verbund deutscher Tanzarchive Dachverband Tanz AG ARCHIV der gtw Gesellschaft für Theaterwissenschaft GTF Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung THESID Theatersammlungen in Deutschland NFDI4Culture LOFFT – DAS THEATER Leipzig Schauspiel Leipzig Schaubühne Lindenfels Leipzig Leipziger Ballett Villa Wigman e.V. Europäisches Zentrum der Künste Hellerau Tanznetz Hochschule für Musik und Theater „Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy“ Netzwerk Tanz- und Bewegungswissenschaft Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln Akademie der Künste, Berlin Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut Bremen Pina Bausch Archiv Folkwang Tanzarchiv Derra de Moroda Dance Archives, Salzburg Bibliothèque de l’Opera, Paris Centre
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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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