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The play was called Reigen, or La Ronde, and in its time was startling.
Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009
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Despite their specific goals, the everyday organization of Jewish gymnastics clubs was very similar to that of non-Jewish clubs; the practice regimen for women was restricted to free-style and choreographed exercises, exercises with dance elements (Reigen) and gymnastic games as well as simple exercises on apparatus.
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At its ballyhooed best, the adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's disturbing 1900 drama Reigen (which became Max Ophüls 'movie La Ronde) was undangerous, not erotic, modish, not carnal.
Down Memory Lane With Teacher: The Naughty Madame Melville 2001
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Outside the German-speaking world, and even in it, Arthur Schnitzler has, for the last fifty years or so, been known chiefly as the author of the play Reigen, on which the film was based.
The Return of La Ronde Annan, Gabriele 1983
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The Krivoye Zerkalo staged a sumptuous version of Schnitzlers Reigen.
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In Europe, among the southern Slavs, the Reigen, or Kolo -- wild dances by girls, adorned with flowers, and with skirts girt high, followed by sexual intercourse -- take place in autumn, during the nights following harvest time.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899
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He smiled, answering the adoring look of her eyes with his own amorous glance, and in another few seconds they were part of the brilliant whirl of dancers now crowding the ball-room and swinging round in a blaze of colour and beauty to the somewhat hackneyed strains of the "Fruhlings Reigen."
Innocent : her fancy and his fact Marie Corelli 1889
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His brother, Reigen, succeeded him, and after holding the sceptre for twenty-four years, continued to administer affairs from his place of retirement until his death, in 1732.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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When Schnitzler's Reigen was first published in 1903, long before its first authorized performance in 1920, it suffered ugly attacks from both Left and Right and was seen as a slur on the German people.
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Juliane from Reigen and I had a chance to interview Peter during the press brunch, where we asked him about his design process and his thoughts on his place in British and Scandinavian fashion.
Stil in Berlin dario 2010
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