Coming from the Wandervogel movement, Oetke was active from 1924 as a collector of folk dances and melodies and published numerous essays on traditional folk art and folk dance collections. From 1945, together with Aenne Goldschmidt, he helped to build up the “State Folk Art Ensemble” of the GDR. He was able to publish his extensive work “Der deutsche Volkstanz” in two volumes in the GDR in 1982. His collection contains material on folk dance and Oetke’s own work. Research
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One of the most important holdings of the Tanzarchiv Leipzig is the estate of the dancer, choreographer and dance theorist Rudolf von Laban. With his “School for Art” on Monte Verità near Ascona, he developed ideas for a new movement pedagogy and a movement script from 1911 to 1917, which he further perfected at the end of the 1920s (Kinetography or Labanotation). Due to his artistic, theoretical and pedagogical impulses, he is considered a pioneer and co-founder of modern dance in Germany, where he also had a significant influence on amateur dance through movement choruses. In the 1930s, Laban also
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The Tanzarchiv Leipzig e.V. association, in cooperation with the Institute of Theatre Studies and the Leipzig University Library, promotes the accessibility and research of the Tanzarchiv’s collection holdings. With events, publications, and artistic projects, the work of the association aims in particular at the public communication of the collections as well as the topics and questions connected with them in various contexts. The cultural heritage of dance in Germany is distributed among many memorial institutions, archives and collections, most of which are united in the Association of German Dance Archives where they also pursue joint projects. Applications for membership and
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