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	ArtandCulture Artist: Mary Wigman
		When explaining the physical sensations of her movement, Mary Wigman seemed to describe an intimate duet in which the surrounding space was her partner.
		Space for Wigman was animate, actively molding and defining her movments.
		According to Wigman, dance is a heighten physical response to human experience: —"joy and spiritual ecstasy transform mans' steps into dance steps." But joy was not her only inspiration -- Wigman was deeply affected by the miseries of both World Wars, and the majority of her work explores a dark spectrum of emotions.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=899 (425 words)

	Mary Wigman Summary
		Mary Wigman was born Marie Wiegmann on November 13, 1886, in Hanover, Germany.
		Mary Wigman (1886-1973), born Karoline Sophie Marie Wiegmann, was a German dancer, choreographer, and instructor of dance.
		Mary Wigman toured the United States in 1930 with her company of dancers; a school was founded by her disciples in New York City in 1931.
	www.bookrags.com /Mary_Wigman (1125 words)

	Mary Wigman at AllExperts
		Mary Wigman (1886-1973), born Karoline Sophie Marie Wiegmann, was a German dancer, choreographer, and instructor of dance.Credited for innovation of expressionist dance, and pioneer of modern dance in Germany.
		Karoline Sophie Marie Wiegmann was born on November 13, 1886 in Hannover, Germany.
		Mary Wigman toured the United States in 1930 with her company of dancers; a school was founded by her disciples in New York City in 1931.
	en.allexperts.com /e/m/ma/mary_wigman.htm (422 words)

	Wigman Mary - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Wigman, Mary (1886-1973), German dancer, choreographer, and teacher, one of the most influential figures in European modern dance.
		One of his teaching assistants during World War I in Switzerland, Mary Wigman, was to become one of the most celebrated dancers of the modernist...
		One of Laban’s most celebrated students and associates, Mary Wigman, enjoyed great renown as a choreographer and performer in the period between the...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Wigman_Mary.html (115 words)

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		Wigman's dream was shattered again, however, when the sisters told her that it was too late for Wigman, at the age of twenty-two, to start dancing, that she could dance in a Nachtclub but never in a Tanzkonzert.13 Wigman was not interested in ballet as dance.
		Wigman was on the brink of achieving the dream for which she had left horne: she succeeded in becoming an independent woman, pursuing a career as a dance teacher, and was immersed in the most vibrant cultural and intellectual atmosphere of the time.
		Before Wigman debuted as a "modem dancer", before she was choreographing movements based solel yon expression, dance and expressive gestures were already an integral part of the intellectual and cultural discourses of the time that were engaged with the questions of the human body and its perception.
	www.raphaelvishanu-world.at /MaryWigman.html (7179 words)

	Mary Wigman
		Wigman's dream was shattered again, however, when the sisters told her that it was too late for Wigman, at the age of twenty-two, to start dancing, that she could dance in a Nachtclub but never in a Tanzkonzert.13 Wigman was not interested in ballet as dance.
		Wigman was on the brink of achieving the dream for which she had left horne: she succeeded in becoming an independent woman, pursuing a career as a dance teacher, and was immersed in the most vibrant cultural and intellectual atmosphere of the time.
		Mary Wigman certainly did not intend it with any sense of irony when she talked about how dance, as 'life', was the aesthetic medium for the humanity of the future.
	www.gusto-graeser.info /Monteverita/Personen/WigmanMaryEnglish_MaryWigman.html (8838 words)

	Describing
		The Wigman School Dresden was founded in 1920/21 and conducted by Mary Wigman until 1942.
		It was the first vocational college of modern dance in Europe and the U.S.A., and likewise it gave important impulses for the evocation of modern dance, the modern education of dance and movement, and even the therapy through dance.
		As the owner of her school and independent dancer in her esthetics and education of dance, she was dependent on the circumstances of her contemporary culture and society, but in turn she also helped to shape them.
	www.mary-wigman.de /Describing.htm (468 words)

	Mary Wigman Research Article - Associated Content
		It seems that Mary Wigman was such a sensation but it's difficult to understand this without understanding what was contained in her dances.
		"Mary Wigman created an intimate duet in which the surrounding space was her partner." Space for Mary Wigman was a tool that was an important aspect of her creations.
		The impacts and inspirations Mary Wigman made to modern dance is not comprehensible as it goes beyond one or two impacts.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/84985/mary_wigman_research_article.html?page=2 (793 words)

	Fondation Royaumont: Mary Wigman and Dore Hoyer
		/Home/Programs for artists/Dance/Biographies : Mary Wigman and Dore Hoyer
		She studies with Dalcroze and then with Gret Palucca and dances in Mary Wigman's company in the 30's and the 50's.
		Mary Wigman and Dore Hoyer's works were part of the programme of the Repertory Workshop 2005, directed by Susanne Linke.
	www.royaumont.com /fondation_abbaye/mary_wigman_and_dore_hoyer.588.0.html (144 words)

	Gurdjieff's Movements and European Art 5/6
		Mainly we think of Gurdjieff Movements as a from of expressive dancing and in order to give an impression of what else belongs to this category we concentrate on two german artists of this time, because in the way the dancing influences the body and soul of human, parallels to Gurdjieff's Movements can be found.
		Born on 13th of November 1886 Marie Wiegmann (later Mary Wigman) came in 1911 to learn at the "Rhythmische Bildungsanstalt" of Emile Jaques-Dalcroze in Dresden-Hellerau in the new building of Heinrich Tessenow.
		In 1942 Mary Wigman performs solo for the last time with her program "Abschied und Dank" in Dresden.
	www.gurdjieff-movements.net /movements/mary_wigman.htm (272 words)

	Mary Wigman - Resultados de la búsqueda - MSN Encarta
		Mary Wigman (1886-1973), bailarina alemana, coreógrafa y maestra, se encuentra entre las figuras más influyentes de la danza moderna europea.
		Mary Wigman buscó en África y Asia oriental su inspiración coreográfica.
		Una de sus asistentes en la docencia durante la I Guerra Mundial, en Suiza, fue Mary Wigman, que se convertiría en una de las más famosas bailarinas...
	es.encarta.msn.com /Mary_Wigman.html (109 words)

	ArtsAlive.ca - Dance : Meet the Artists
		Mary Wigman didn't begin to study dance until she was almost 24 years old.
		There, Wigman taught her technique, which was built on the use of structured improvisations.
		Wigman's work was rediscovered during the 1970s with the rise of Tanztheater, a style closely associated with Pina Bausch.
	www.artsalive.ca /en/dan/meet/bios/artistDetail.asp?artistID=186 (299 words)

	Wigman as Mentor
		This investment of Mary with enormous power was to be both a source of strength and inspiration to Judy, and in time a condition of her own creative unfolding.
		Inspired by the artistic guidance which Mary Wigman represented to her, she literally re-made herself in the image of a dancer.
		Bolstered by Wigman's praise for her as a dancer and creator, Judy was determined to rejoin the school for a second year.
	www.dcd.ca /exhibitions/jarvis/mentor.html (1004 words)

	Mary Wigman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mary Wigman (1886-1973), born Karoline Sophie Marie Wiegmann, was a German dancer, choreographer, and instructor of dance.
		Mary Wigman toured the United States in 1930 with her company of dancers; a school was founded by her disciples in New York City in 1931.
		Mary Wigman's choreographies often employed non-Western instrumentation: fifes, bells, gongs, and drums from India, Thailand, Africa, and China.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mary_Wigman (381 words)

	The Lessons of Mary Wigman Dance Magazine - Find Articles
		In it she remembers her days as a Wigman student; after that, coming to America and deciding to stay because of the censorship she experienced on returning to a Germany that had become Hitler's.
		I didn't know whether she was aware of Mary Wigman's idea or not, but the idea of a dance based on a breathing rhythm seemed very natural to me.
		Sometimes Mary's teachers made use of the scales, but they did not say, "This is Wigman technique." That was not emphasized and the teaching was rather loosely structured.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1083/is_4_74/ai_61426510 (893 words)

	AllRefer.com - Mary Wigman (Dance, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Mary Wigman 1886–1973, German dancer, choreographer, and teacher.
		After studying with Rudolf von Laban, Wigman performed in Germany and opened her own school in Dresden (1920).
		Through her teaching and that of her students and dancers, especially Hanya Holm and Margarete Wallmann, she influenced modern dance throughout Germany, the United States, and England.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/Wigman-M.html (250 words)

	Mary Wigman \| Biographie
		In the fall of 1919, Mary Wigman (whose actual name was Karoline Sofie Marie Wiegmann) was celebrated in Hamburg for the first time by a German audience as a new and truly great dancer.
		She was nearly 33 years old, and in the subsequent years she would establish herself internationally as the creator and agent of an original form of art: expressionist dance.
		[] this wonderful feeling I stood there with, suddenly happy and blissful to be under the dictatorship of a drum rhythm.” Her entire life, Mary Wigman endured illness, emotional crises and poverty for the sake of this feeling of fulfillment.
	www.fembio.org /english/biography.php/woman/print_bio/mary-wigman (478 words)

	Mary Wigman \| Biographies
		Es scheint, als ob sie den Raum, in dem sie tanzt, aus der Leere herausreißt.
		Mary Wigman was, during the 1920s and ‘30s, the most highly regarded modern dancer and choreographer in Central Europe and one of the principal reasons for the ascendancy there of MODERN DANCE over classical ballet until the end of World War II.
		Mary hämmerte mit den Paukenschlegeln auf den Flügel ein, raste dann tobend wieder weg, kam erneut zurück und fiel mit dramatischer Geste vor mir auf die Knie, ich saß derweil noch immer unter dem Flügel.
	www.fembio.org /english/biography.php/woman/biography/mary-wigman (723 words)

	Werner ECKELT: Mary Wigman / Germany 1935
		Description: Portrait of the German expressionist dancer Mary Wigman, c.
		Wigman was a German dancer, choreographer, and teacher.
		After studying with Rudolf von Laban in Ascona, Wigman performed in Germany and opened her own school in Dresden (1920).
	www.goantiques.com /detail,werner-eckelt-mary,906308.html (189 words)

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