Modern Dance in Germany and the United States Cross Currents and Influences

A videotape showing Kurt Jooss and Isa Partsch-Bergsohn in conversation is available with this book. The United States took the lead in modern dance innovation during the 1960s when artists such as Martha Graham, Josea Limoan, Paul Taylor, Alvin Ailey and Alwin Nikolais overwhelmed European audiences. Subsequently, the New German Tanztheatre revitalized German theatre traditions with its new content and application of some of the United States modern dance techniques. This book discusses both parallels and distinctions between the history of modern dance in the United States and Germany. Examining the problems encountered by the artist in a particular social-cultural context, Isa Partsch-Bergsohn follows the closely related and yet distinctive histories of modern dance in Germany and the United States between 1920 and 1968. She analyses the initial movement in Europe with the philosophies of Dalcroze, Laban, Wigman and Jooss, the effects of the Third Reich on the artists, the subPartsch-Bergsohn, Isa is the author of 'Modern Dance in Germany and the United States Cross Currents and Influences' with ISBN 9783718655571 and ISBN 3718655578.