Among Laban’s students was the German dancer and dance teacher Jenny Gertz (1891-1966), who became known mainly for her dance work with children. Gertz’s communist commitment led to the closure of her school in Halle/Saale by the Gestapo during National Socialism. She emigrated to Prague and later to England, where she continued teaching children’s dance. After the end of the Second World War, Gertz returned to Halle/Saale, where her pedagogical principles and methods were hardly recognised. Her estate at the Tanzarchiv Leipzig contains letters, manuscripts and teaching materials as well as photographs and short films. 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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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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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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