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BEST GERMAN DANCERS PROFILES
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German folk
dance was consisted of a series of chasses
and hops done to 2/4 and 4/4 music.
There were also combination dances
such as the polka-redowa and polka-mazurka. Waltz
from the old German word walzen to roll, turn,
or to glide. A German traveler to Paris in
1804 stated, this love for the
waltz and this adoption of the German
dance is quite new and has become one of
the vulgar fashions since the war,
like smoking.
IN THE YEARS immediately
after World War I, several impulses
within the German modern dance movement
attempted to present the nude body as a sign of a
modern, liberated identity "in the age of mechanical
reproduction. German dance-theater
aesthetics of the 1920s are so dense
with unresolved and even unspoken controversy; I want
to examine several conflicts encountered by the modern
dance world of the Weimar Republic in trying
to use nudity in dance to equate a "more modern"
condition with the act of asserting a "more naked"
identity.
None of these dances
grew more popular than the waltz, which was first
introduced to the Austrian court
in the 17th century. Its gliding,
whirling movements immediately became the rage throughout
the entire population. Some people, however, found
waltzing undignified, and in 1760
the performance of waltzes was banned by the church
in parts of Germany.
Similar to earlier
pieces associated with battles, sword
dances were performed in Germany,
Scotland, and elsewhere in Europe.
Similar to the sword dance is the
Morris dance, which was performed
at secular festivals from Scotland to Spain.
Best German Dancers
Alexander Sakharoff
Carol Campbell
Detlef Soost
Gret Palucca
Hannelore Bey
Harald Kreutzberg
Kurt Jooss
Laya Raki
Leni Riefenstahl
Marlene Charell
Rasa Von Werder
Rob Pilatus
Vera Zorina
Yvonne Georgi
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