Wigman

She had been in the Wigman school in New York but broke with the school when Wigman became associated with the Nazi regime.

Dance Performance in the United States. 2009

In 1928 she used her dowry to study with Mary Wigman and others in Dresden, graduating from the Wigman school in three years with top honors.

Dance Performance in the United States. 2009

Bergstein progressed in her dancing career, joining the company of Vera Skoronel (1909 – 1932), a pupil of dancer and choreographer Mary Wigman (1866 – 1973), who had herself studied with von Laban.

Leah Bergstein. 2009

(It was Shawn who in 1931 invited Wallmann to teach the Wigman Technique at the Denishawn School in Los Angeles.)

Margarethe Wallmann. 2009

She started her dance training at the age of six, studying the Mary Wigman technique with Yardena Cohen and later the Martha Graham technique with Rina Gluck.

Rina Yerushalmi. 2009

“Mary Wigman and Modern Dance” (1989), unpublished lecture.

Paula Padani. 2009

This was a key difference between her work and that of Wigman and Laban, for whom Absolute Dance meant a liberation from the requirement of music.

Gertrud Bodenwieser. 2009

By this time she had begun ballet training with the Diaghilev ballerina Catherine Devilliers, and made friends with Julia Tardy Marcus (1905 – 2002), a Jewish modern dancer who was a pupil of Mary Wigman (1886 – 1973).

Tatjana Barbakoff. 2009

She taught with great passion until the end of her life, remaining true to the techniques of improvisation which had been developed in the Wigman school.

Paula Padani. 2009

In 1928, she lectured in New York on the Wigman Technique and the nature of Expressionist dance.

Margarethe Wallmann. 2009