Ausdruckstanz

The dancers who arrived in the country in the 1920s and 1930s, almost all of whom were women, brought with them their revolutionary ideas about the central European modern dance known as Ausdruckstanz (expressive dance).

Dance in the Yishuv and Israel. 2009

She was able to shape a world of her own, colored by Russian memories and exotic dreams, in a country and at a time when the so-called Ausdruckstanz (Expressive Dance) was imbued with identity struggles and political claims.

Tatjana Barbakoff. 2009

There was a sense that unless drastic measures were taken, modern American-style dance would soon go the way of Ausdruckstanz.

Dance in the Yishuv and Israel. 2009

Initially influenced by Isadora Duncan and François Delsarte and later by Emile Jacques Dalcroze, Bess Mensendieck and Rudolf von Laban, she developed her own style of modern Ausdruckstanz (expressionist dance).

Gertrud Bodenwieser. 2009

It emerged that Ausdruckstanz had almost disappeared from the world map of dance and the spotlights were now focused on modern American dance.

Dance in the Yishuv and Israel. 2009

Since Bausch had her roots in Ausdruckstanz, her performances awakened the unique historical connection between dance in Israel and the dormant ausdruckstanz.

Dance in the Yishuv and Israel. 2009

In the context of Ausdruckstanz, she was termed “the most important and active personality produced by Vienna in this field” (Kügler).

Gertrud Bodenwieser. 2009

(Paris, 1949), compares American modern dance with that of the European expressive school (Ausdruckstanz).

Bethsab��e Rothschild. 2009

Her dances, created for her and for her sister by their mother or by themselves, were in the style and spirit of German “Free Dance” or Ausdruckstanz but influenced by their Mediterranean surroundings and their unique status as pioneers of a new secular culture in Erez Israel.

Shoshana Ornstein. 2009

At the same time, she studied with Tehilla Rössler, one of the important teachers of expressive dance (Ausdruckstanz), who was renowned for her method.

Mirali Sharon. 2009