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...Tanz's measured progress continued until he came to van Gogh's Self-portrait, 1889, oils, 65 x 54 cm., sometimes known as 'Vincent in the Flames'. The description in the catalogue read:' . . .Taut to the breaking point, it testifies to van Gogh's struggle to master his inward turmoil .... An expression of supreme equilibrium on the brink of the abyss...
Hartmann limited himself to the bare title and reference number, thinking that there would be no time for more. Mechanically, he started to move on to the next picture, but General Tanz lingered in front of 'Vincent in the Flames' longer than usual. He stared at the picture, or rather, he stared straight ahead and consequently--since it hung at eye level--at the picture...
...Lauben, eingewiegt durch Tanz...
Germany happened to prove fertile ground for the Wigman idea. The formal ballet never flourished there as it did in Russia and France. The average German is ungraceful and the Wigman doctrine demanded less grace than it did muscular control carried to scientific perfection. Her cult, called tanz gymnastik, spread wholesale among housewives and factory workers who found the exercise profitable. Wigman ideas were modified and taught in the public schools. The Wigman Central Institute in Dresden was subsidized for a time by the Federal Government. Unauthorized groups have used the name of Wigman in Boston, Cleveland and Seattle...
Paris in 1825. "Play me something," said the pale, sarcastic genius of twenty, the already famous Liszt. Von Lenz played Aufforderung zum Tanz* and then other music by Weber. The glitter of a dagger in the sun was in the eyes of Liszt, and he put down his long Turkish pipe, amazed. He had never heard of Weber's piano music, and he solemnly pledged eternal gratitude to Von Lenz from Riga for having introduced to him such beauty. He had known only Weber's universally popular opera Frieschütz.š And young Weber had been dead...