Erich Janietz became known above all for his efforts in the field of German folk dance. Influenced by the Wandervogel movement and the Free German Youth Movement, he was one of the important personalities of the folk dance movement in Germany before and after the Second World War, together with Ludwig Burkhardt, Herbert Oetke, Anna Helms-Blasche and Julius Blasche. In addition to his work as a gymnastics and folk dance teacher, he published the magazine “Der Volkstanz” from 1925 and the magazine “Der Tanzkreis” from 1930. In the GDR he worked at the Central House for Folk Art and was
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Together with her husband Julius Blasche, the folk dance collector, choreographer and author is one of the most important personalities of the folk dance movement in Germany in the 20th century. As a member of the Wandervogel movement, she collected and published traditional folk dances and created her own dance games. After the Second World War, she worked to promote exchange between folk dancers in West and East Germany. The Anna Helms-Blasche Collection contains her correspondence, dance booklets, manuscripts, postcards, photographs and newspaper cuttings. Research
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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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A large number of meetings, symposia and conferences have already been organised for the exchange of specialist topics, questions and methods based on the holdings of Tanzarchiv Leipzig, which have always addressed the public interested in dance with special programme items and whose results are usually documented in publications. Dance in pictures – Plural constellations of Photography Virtual video conference from 28 – 30 January 2021 Perspectives of Digital Humanities in Dance and Theatre ResearchOnline workshop on 9 January 2021 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Body/Politics: Dance forms, institutions and actors in the GDR (13 – 15 November 2014)
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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. Research
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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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