The Makers Of Modern Dance In Germany - Part II - Screener

We have to distinguish between the Games themselves which were fundamentally sport obviously There are Olympic sport and surrounding it is Uh a completely different artistically based cultural program now laan has Nothing To Do categorically Nothing To Do with the Olympic Games um or anything that went on in the Stadium and He has Everything to do with the cultural program that surrounded it now One reads sometimes that Uh he mastermind the opening ceremony at the Games This is Absolutely erroneous he did not Uh neither was he asked to do so and If he had been asked

he would Uh surely not not have agreed now Why wouldn't he have agreed you could think it might be a wonderful job But for him it wouldn't be At All Because Uh at that time Uh it seems to me looking at the correspondence um that I've studied in the archive of the r that lan's fundamental aim is to retain dance and especially for him amateur dance in the realm of art and art making and creativity and he will not allow it to be swallowed up into the other side of of bily tr hardly any single

with the exception of diag put the stamp of his Genius on the development of the dance during the first half of the 20th Century as distinctly as did rudolf Laban walter sorel rudol Laban died of July 1958 and was buried in way bridge England his gravestone reads rudol Laban a life for dance in 1942 viman was removed from her school in dresden nbh the Head of the academy of dramatic arts in leipzig offered her a position as guest teacher viman tau there February of 1944 When the dance facili at the academy were destroyed toate resid

as studio with few students deci to that dev City When the war was over and leip Fell under the Russian occupation most of her Friends decided to leave and go to the west She was all alone