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How Did Mary Wigman Contribute To Modern Dance

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Mary Wigman had influence over Germany for modern dance as she began working with Rudolph Laban and she created a dance school in Dresden for students to learn something new which was in fact a creative experience that is an expression of emotional impulses. She wanted her dancers to be conscious of the impulses that lay within themselves and how to express them. Her movements wanted to create a cathartic function to dance in ancient societies and will be remembered for their tragic, dark character and introspective dances that reveal vibrant, vital and passionate inner states of being. It was in fact the rise of the Nazi political party in Germany in the 1920s ended the German modern dance movement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Wigman Wikipedia 14th December 2017
In the Central Modern period (c. 1923–1946), choreographers Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman started to develop distinctively American movement styles and vocabularies and …show more content…

Wigman saw the potential of Hanya Holm during the Egyptian dancewas where she had the creative ability to piece together a choreographic vision into reality. Holm's movement emphasized the freedom and flowing quality of the torso and back and focused on the importance of pulse, planes, floor patterns, aerial design, direction, and spatial dimensions. Holm trained through improvisation so, a specific movement vocabulary or phrasing that could be carried on through classes does not exist; instead her focus was about learning through discovery. Her work was often an extension to Wigman and Rudolf Laban as her movements focused on the body’s relation to space and emotion. In the late 1940s, she choreographed for musicals in which she was one of the first people to bring modern dance to the Broadway stage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanya_Holm Wikipedia 18th August

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