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Followers of the dance were fairly dizzy last week over the importance of an event in Manhattan. Their enthusiasm invaded the smartcharts and artcharts until lay men also began to feel that they owed it to their development to see the German dancer, Mary Wigman. The house sold out for her debut recital; five more performances were announced and a tour as far west as Chicago. Dancers say solemnly that Mary Wigman is the Greatest Influence of the modern dance. She is a follower of Isadora Duncan in that she repudiates the formal ballet and all its artificial patterns...
Recognition came to her some twelve years ago after a performance in a Swiss kurhaus before an audience of the sick and neurasthenic. In Germany, where pretty, tinted dancing never flourished, she has built up a successful school in Dresden, inspired hundreds of imitators, won thousands of converts. Wigman interviews last week were in the vein of "I love life!" and "I am lying on the earth and am one with the elemental things, the primal things. It is as though my body were filled with life. My body sings and I listen and I try to translate that music...
...Russians Mikhail Mordkin and Adolph Bolm, the American Ted Shawn, the Japanese Michio Ito and the German Harald Kreutzberg. Kreutzberg, who, according to many, leads them all today, is 24. He was once a designer for a small fashion magazine, then a dance pupil of the modernist Mary Wigman, then head of the Hanover Opera ballet. He came first to the U. S. last year with Max Reinhardt's players and last fortnight he came again, with Danseuse Yvonne Georgi, for a series of performances under the management of that doughty oldtime stage-lady, Elisabeth Marbury...