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Kurt Jooss

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Kurt Jooss , 1901-79, German dancer, producer, and choreographer. Jooss was a student of Rudolf von Laban and was influenced by Émile Jacques-Dalcroze. The Green Table (1932), his most famous ballet, was an expressionistic view of the origins of war. Leaving Germany after the rise of Hitler, he worked in England with his Ballets Jooss and toured in many European and American cities, returning to Germany after the war. His group was disbanded in 1962; Jooss continued to perform with other Western European companies. His ballets, including Chronica, The Big City, A Spring Tale, and... Read more

Kurt Jooss
...and his renamed Ballets Jooss toured worldwide until disbanding in 1947. He returned in 1949 to Essen, where he continued to choreograph works that combined ballet and modern dance in an Expressionist style. Kurt Jooss Kurt Jooss Kurt Jooss Read more

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, 1940-, German dancer and choreographer. After training with Kurt Jooss , she studied in New York with Antony Tudor , Paul Taylor , and Paul Sanasardo. In 1973 she assumed the post of ballet master of...in Arien (1985) the dance area was filled with ankle-deep water. Her experimental concert ballets have included ... Read more

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	Obituary: Dr Alice Roughton ; ...Roughton befriended the German dancer Kurt Jooss, who before the war had been installed with his famous school and company, the Ballets Jooss, at Dartington Hall in Devon. With the coming of war, Jooss's company was stranded while touring South... Read more
	Putting Politics on the 'Table' ; ...to power in Germany had begun. And Kurt Jooss's balletic indictment of politics...Hitler was gaining political momentum. Jooss himself was a victim of the prevailing...composer, Frederic Cohen. After refusing, Jooss fled Germany. This season, Jooss's... Read more
	The Winds of War Are Kicking Up ; ...American Ballet Theatre's revival of Kurt Jooss's "The Green Table" at the Kennedy...especially political. ABT performed Jooss's 1932 treatise on bureaucrats with...a soldier, a grieving woman and a Jooss-like Death, both cruel and comforting... Read more
	Ballet's anti-war dance has stark force ; ...elemental power of "The Green Table," Kurt Jooss' anti-war dance from 1932, retained...Milwaukee Ballet. The dancers, coached by Jooss' daughter, Anna Markard, understood...silent film and poster-art posing. Yes, Jooss oversimplifies. War is not a matter... Read more
	From silly to sublime, Joffrey hits right mood ; ...the grim power of "The Green Table," a 1932 ballet by Kurt Jooss. Moulton is obviously familiar with the crowd at basketball...Balanchine, Louis Gottschalk and "The Green Table," Kurt Jooss, Frederic Cohen. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Civic Opera House... Read more
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