The German dancer, choreographer and dance teacher began his career as a student of Kurt Jooss at the Folkwang School in Essen before studying modern dance and jazz dance with F. Wagner at the Graham School in New York. As a teacher, Traguth advocated a synthesis of modern dance and jazz dance. He was also enthusiastic about the dances of non-European cultures. In this spirit, he founded the open International Dance Workshop Bonn (ITW) in 1973, whose patronage was taken over by the German Unesco Commission in 1980.
