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Bodenwieser Ballet
Gertrud Bodenwieser (3 February 1890 – 10 November 1959), also known as "Gertrude", was a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and pioneer of expressive dance. Early life The daughter of Theodore and Maria Bondi, a wealthy Jewish couple, she turned to dance under the pseudonym Gertrud Bodenwieser of which she was celebrated in Vienna as a sensation. Bodenwieser's style was based on classical ballet of which she was originally taught by Carl Godlewski from 1905 to 1910; she had a new style of dance that was welcomed by the audience, critics and young students with much enthusiasm. She was inspired by the works of Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis. One of her greatest successes was "Demon Machine", a dance performance, in which a group of dancers turned into machines. Career Bodenwieser was appointed professor of dance at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. In the concert hall's basement she ran her own dance studio. Her pupils went out on tours througho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vienna
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Peggy Van Praagh
Dame Margaret van Praagh (1 September 1910 – 15 January 1990) was a British ballet dancer, choreographer, teacher, repetiteur, producer, advocate and director, who spent much of her later career in Australia. Early life Peggy van Praagh was born in London and was of Dutch, Scottish and English descent. Her father, Harold John van Praagh, was a British physician with a Jewish background and her mother was Ethel Louise née Shanks. She was educated at King Alfred School, London where she meet A.S. Neill who heavily influenced her passion for dance through artistic thinking and creativity which aided her in the dance community. Throughout the course her schooling, she was involved in a series of plays and productions. Dancing She began dancing very early in London at the age of 4. One review stated: "At last night's concert a dainty extra was a very charming dance by little Peggy van Praagh ... Peggy is only six but she is quite a clever little artiste and is booked again ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Palmer
Maria Palmer (born Maria Pichler, 5 September 1917 – 6 September 1981) was an Austrian-born American actress. Early life Palmer was born and raised in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Vienna, Austria) on 5 September 1917. She first appeared on stage as a child actor, in various Max Reinhardt productions. She trained as a dancer, and was a member of the Bodenwieser Ensemble. She later studied drama and voice at the Vienna Conservatory. Career In 1938, a year before the outbreak of war, Palmer emigrated with her parents to the United States. She first performed on the stage in New York City, most notably in the 1942 production of ''The Moon Is Down''. She moved into film, helping to meet Hollywood's demand for exotic foreign women for war films and films noir. Her debut was playing Catherine de' Medici in the 1942 short ''Nostradamus and the Queen''. Her feature film debut was in ''Mission to Moscow'' (1943). She continued in 1944 with '' Days of Glory'', opposite Gregory Peck, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gertrud Kraus
Gertrud Kraus ( he, גרטרוד קראוס; 5 May 1901 – 13 November 1977) was an Israeli pioneer of modern dance in Israel. Biography Gertrud Kraus was born in 1901 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. Her father, Leopold Kraus, and her mother, Olga (née Neubauer), married in Prague in 1899. They had four children: Robert (1900), Gertrud (1901), Margarethe (1902) and Victor (1903).Giora ManorJewish Women's Archive: Gertrud Kraus/ref> Kraus studied piano at the State Academy in Vienna but after graduating decided that what she really loved was dance. She enrolled again at the State Academy, this time in the modern dance department headed by Gertrud Bodenwieser. After graduation, she joined Bodenwieser's dance company. A few months later, she opened a studio and began rehearsing solos to perform by herself. Her first independent recital took place in a large hall that she hired herself. Friends warned her of the risk involved, but she said: "If it's going to be a flop, at least it wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susi Jeans
Susi may refer to: *933 Susi, a minor planet orbiting the Sun *Susi Air, an Indonesian airline *Sydney University Stellar Interferometer, an optical interferometer in Sydney, Australia People Given name *Susi Erdmann (born 1968), German luger and bobsledder * Susi Ganeshan, Indian film director * Susi Giebisch (born 1930), Austrian figure skater * Susi Graf (born 1959), Austrian-American film director *Susi Handschmann (born 1959), Austrian ice dancer *Susi Jeans (1911–1993), Austrian organist * Susi Kentikian (''Susianna Kentikian''; born 1987), Armenian boxer * Susi Kilgore, American illustrator * Susi Lanner (1911–2006), Austrian film actress *Susi Nicoletti (1918–2005), Austrian film actress *Susi Pudjiastuti, 6th Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries of Indonesia, CEO Susi Air * Susi Susanti (born 1971), Indonesian badminton player * Susi Wirz (''Suzanne Wirz''; born 1931), Swiss figure skater *Susi (biblical figure), scout mentioned in the Bible *Susi, loyal serva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilde Holger
Hilde Boman-Behram (née Hilde Sofer, stage name Hilde Holger; 18 October 1905 – 22 September 2001) was an expressionist dancer, choreographer and dance teacher whose pioneering work in integrated dance transformed modern dance. Family Holger came from a liberal Jewish family. She was born in 1905, the daughter of Alfred and Elise Sofer Schreiber. Her father wrote poetry, and had died by 1908. Her grandfather made shoes for the Austrian court. After Nazi Germany invaded Austria, Holger fled Vienna in 1939, because her entry into England was denied, she went to India. In Mumbai, she met the Parsi homeopath and art loving Dr. Ardershir Kavasji Boman-Behram, they married in 1940. Her mother, step-father, and fourteen other relatives all perished in the Holocaust. Hilde Holger had two children. The first was born 1946 in India, her daughter Primavera Boman-Behram. In New York, she became a dancer, sculptor and jewelry designer. In 1948, Holger's family emigrated to Britain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisa Geert
Gisa Geert, stage name of Margarita Gross (Vienna, 7 June 1900 – Madrid, 2 April 1991), was an Austrian actress and choreographer, who was very active in Italy from the 1940s to the 1960s. Biography Geert had been a member of the 'Bodenwieser Ensemble', founded under dancer Gertrud Bodenwieser. At the turn of the Second World War she had choreographed many performances of the revue theatre, working among others with companies and Totò and Erminio Macario, before moving to the more modern musical comedy and vaudeville Garinei e Giovanni. By virtue of the severity with which she operated she earned the nickname the career of the iron lady.SeeDeepening biographical Delteatro.it She has been appreciated for her beauty and her ideas. Remembered for the last review of Totò – There you eat! – staged in the season of 1949-1950. On that occasion, one of the choreographic pictures involved were chess pieces with living pawns, or with the dancers depicting the capital in a play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shona Dunlop MacTavish
Shona Katrine MacTavish (née Dunlop; 12 April 1920 – 18 June 2019) was a New Zealand dancer, teacher, author, choreographer and pioneer in liturgical dance in the Asia-Pacific. She was known as "the mother of modern dance in New Zealand". Early life and dance career Shona Katrine Dunlop was born in Dunedin on 12 April 1920; her father was Francis Dunlop, a Scottish-born Presbyterian minister who lectured in moral philosophy at the University of Otago, and her brother was Bonar Dunlop who became a noted sculptor. In 1935, she and her family travelled to Europe, and she enrolled to study with expressionist dancer and choreographer Gertrud Bodenwieser at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. She studied there for two years and then joined as a principal dancer. Bodenwieser and many of her dancers were Jewish and in 1938, when the Nazis invaded Austria, the ballet was forced to leave Europe. The company toured South America then based themselves in Sydney, Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trudl Dubsky
Trudl Dubsky Zipper (31 January 1913 – 3 July 1976), born Gertruda Dubsky, was an Austrian-American innovative dancer, choreographer and teacher. Early life and education Gertruda Rosa Josefine Dubsky was born in Vienna, the daughter of Wilhelm Josef Dubsky and Maria Theresia Dubsky. She trained and performed with the Bodenwieser School and was renowned for her dynamic modern dancing and high leaps. Career In 1932, with fellow Bodenwieser student Jeanette Rutherston, Dubsky co-founded the Rutherston-Dubsky School in London. She moved to the Philippines in 1937, to dance and teach. She founded the Manila Ballet Moderne during her time there. Dubsky was also an accomplished visual artist and her paintings of Manila during the Japanese occupation were published in ''Life'' magazine. Her husband later published a book of her watercolor paintings, ''Manila 1944-1945 As Trudl Saw It'' (1994), about those wartime experiences. They left the Philippines in 1946, but her husband r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilma Degischer
Vilma Degischer (17 November 1911 - 3 May 1992) was an Austrian theatre and film actress. She appeared in more than thirty films from 1931 to 1991. From 1931 to 1991 she played at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna. Early life After she attended school she had originally wanted to be a dancer, and had been taught by Gertrud Bodenwieser Gertrud Bodenwieser (3 February 1890 – 10 November 1959), also known as "Gertrude", was a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and pioneer of expressive dance. Early life The daughter of Theodore and Maria Bondi, a wealthy Jewish couple, .... Only then did she discover she had a talent for acting. Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Degischer, Vilma 1911 births 1992 deaths Actresses from Vienna Austrian film actresses Austrian stage actresses 20th-century Austrian actresses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Music And Performing Arts, Vienna
The University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (german: link=no, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, abbreviated MDW) is an Austrian university located in Vienna, established in 1817. With a student body of over three thousand, it is the largest institution of its kind in Austria, and one of the largest in the world. In 1817, it was established by the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Society for the Friends of Music. It has had several names: ''Vienna Conservatory'', ''Vienna Academy'' and in 1909 it was nationalized as the ''Imperial Academy of Music and the Performing Arts''. In 1998, the University assumed its current name to reflect its university status, attained in a wide 1970 reform for Austrian ''Arts Academies''. In 2019, the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien (MDW) was named one of the "best performing arts schools in the world" by the ''CEOWORLD'' magazine. The university With a student body of more than 3000, the Universität fü ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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