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The Change of Recognition on the Expressionist Dance in Nazism

  • The Korean Journal of Dance Studies
  • Abbr : KRSDS
  • 2019, 73(1), pp.115-134
  • DOI : 10.16877/kjds.73.1.201903.115
  • Publisher : The Korean Society for Dance Studies
  • Research Area : Arts and Kinesiology > Dance
  • Received : February 14, 2019
  • Accepted : March 13, 2019
  • Published : March 30, 2019

Park Sung Hye 1

1단국대학교

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ABSTRACT

Expressionist dances in the Weimar Republic of Germany and the Third Reich in the early 20th century were not separated from politics. During the Weimar Republic, German modernist dance had gained independence from gymnastics, but the Third Empire recognized dance as a means of propaganda. Rudolf von Laban and Mary Wigman, who were representatives of the expressionist dance at that time, fired Jewish dancers, were assigned to work, and received financial support in order to guarantee their artistic activities from Nazi. Nonetheless, their dances were soon rejected by the Nazis as modernist art because they were abstract, anti-national, and not popular.

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