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The revolutionary movements in Germany and the USA were most obvious, two countries that had no older rooted ballet tradition. She wanted to unite the body, mind and spirit in her art, and searched with Olga Desmond for inspiration in ancient Greek and Egyptian art, during the time of Orientalism. She had even taken off dancing shoes – 'you do not play the piano with gloves on'. A key protagonist was Isadora Duncan, who around 1900 had taken from classical dance technique and costume. Future spiritual and bodily reform movements expressed themselves in a new 'natural' naked dance. The dance would be improvisational, uninhibited and provocative. It would be more expressive, and show more spirit and emotion and less virtuosity. The dance was described as the art of movement. The new dance would be art, both individual and artistic creation. History Įxpressionist dance was marked by the passage of modernism, vitalism, expressionism, avant-garde and a general protest against artistic stagnation and the old society.īallet was perceived to have been superficial entertainment. German Expressionist dance is related to Tanztheater. In 2014, modern dance with the stylistic forms and mediation forms of rhythmic and expressive dance movements was included in the German List of intangible Cultural Heritage as defined by the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

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Other designations are modern dance and (especially in the historical context) free dance, expressionist dance or new artistic dance, in Anglo-American countries German dance. Traditional ballet was perceived as austere, mechanical and tightly held in fixed and conventional forms.

It emerged as a counter-movement to classical ballet at the beginning of the 20th century in Europe.

1939.Įxpressive dance from German Ausdruckstanz, is a form of artistic dance in which the individual and artistic presentation (and sometimes also processing) of feelings is an essential part. Emmy Towsey (Taussig) and Evelyn Ippen, Bodenwieser Ballet in Centennial Park in Sydney, Australia ca.

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