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    Mary Wigman (born Karoline Sophie Marie Wiegmann; 13 November 1886 – 18 September 1973) was a German dancer and choreographer, notable as the pioneer...
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    Nirenska was accepted at the Wigman School, a music and dance school established in Dresden by Expressionist dance pioneer Mary Wigman in the fall of 1920. Nirenska...
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  • expressionist Mary Wigman perform, and decided to continue her dance career at the Wigman School in Dresden where she soon became a member of the company. Mary Wigman...
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  • Perrottet was to become Laban's most important collaborator (along with Mary Wigman and Katja Wulff), lover and mother of his child Allar Perrottet (later...
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    time. Hanya Holm - A student of Mary Wigman and an instructor at the Wigman School in Dresden, founded the New York Wigman School of Dance in 1931 (which...
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    centre for the new dance. Among his students were Kurt Jooss and Mary Wigman. Mary Wigman was an important trendsetter as a dancer, choreographer and teacher...
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  • depicted in the film. Kajganich commented that German expressionist dancers Mary Wigman and Pina Bausch were specific influences on his conceptualization of...
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    offspring of modern and postmodern) include Ruth St. Denis, Doris Humphrey, Mary Wigman, Pina Bausch, Francois Delsarte, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Paul Taylor,...
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  • John Henry Mary Wigman (August 15, 1835 – January 31, 1920) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 22nd mayor of Green Bay, Wisconsin...
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    sculpture, cinema and theatre. Exponents of expressionist dance included Mary Wigman, Rudolf von Laban, and Pina Bausch. Some sculptors used the Expressionist...
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