The German dancer and dance teacher Ilse Loesch was a student of Rudolf von Laban and also worked with Jenny Gertz. In her pedagogical work with disabled people, movement choirs, young people, drama students and children, she tried to educate people holistically through dance and movement and to promote their personal development. In her book Mit Leib und Seele. Erlebte Vergangenheit des Ausdruckstanzes (Berlin 1990), Gertz impressively describes her experience as a movement teacher and committed propagandist of expressive dance. The extensive collection contains materials on amateur dance for dance training, stage practice, dance art, movement and dance research, notations, correspondence, documents on Loesch’s own work, a collection of pictures and programmes, a cultural history collection and much more.
