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...thing was free, inspired movement regardless of its form, that music was unnecessary, at best a mere appendage to real dynamic feeling. Laban theorized down to the smallest detail, studied movements in relation to character and mental attitudes. First to give his ideas concrete expression was his pupil, Mary Wigman, a tense, rawboned woman who was 27 before she decided on a dancer's career. Wigman soon claimed that she could feel herself "as one of the primal things, unable to speak life, only to dance it." To drum & cymbal accompaniment she danced in 1919 before an audience...
...established managers regarded him as an upstart. But they have always been bewildered by the lavish amount of talent he has steadily produced. When in 1925 he went into bankruptcy, his day seemed done. But luck came again with Depression and he presented such money-makers as Dancer Mary Wigman, Hindu Uday Shan-Kar, the Singing Boys of Vienna, the Piccoli Marionettes...
...interpretative dancing is currently in low repute after years of twitting for its fat women in Greek robes and coy postures; if it is being hard pressed by such modernist schools as that of Mary Wigman, it is at least more alive than it was before the great Isadora began to teach. Last week's Stadium audience seemed aware of this when it gave its greatest applause not to the elaborate group dances but to the simple little one which Irma Duncan had got from her foster mother...
Cleveland is in the main stream of things modern and smart. Cleveland applauded importantly two years ago when Doris Humphrey of Manhattan's Dance Repertory Theatre, lecturing at the art museum, called the ballet "an artificial type of toe-dancing." German Dancer Mary Wigman brought to Cleveland her stark rhythms, her "rich speech of the body." Semenoff, intensely devoted to the oldtime ballet-school style, muttered that she was "devoid of grace, devoid of soul." He at least would make his pupils worthy of the old Imperial School. But his pupils, who had once included many a rich...
TIME was misinformed. Lore Deja's dancing instruction is authorized by a diploma from Mary Wigman's school...