"Rrho-DA" is how Rhoda Winter Russell remembers Mary Wigman addressing her, rolling the "r" and lowering the pitch to emphasize the final syllable. "Rrho-DA." It was 60 years ago when Russell, now 82, ...
"Rrho-DA" is how Rhoda Winter Russell remembers Mary Wigman addressing her, rolling the "r" and lowering the pitch to emphasize the final syllable. "Rrho-DA." It was 60 years ago when Russell, now 82, ...
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When Mary Wigman did her stark, muscular, barefoot dances before U.S. audiences in the early ’30s, some of the irreverent wrote the exhibition off as prancing, lunging and posturing. But critics wrote ...
When a dancer who is also a “messiah” and a “priestess” sets forth on a transcontinental tour, the continent in question can scarcely ignore. For a messiah gathers disciples and a priestess casts ...
IF there’s one thing about me it is that I like to keep abreast of all the latest developments in art. That’s why I went one night a while ago to see Miss Mary Wigman, who is touring this country and ...
The chanting starts slowly, then builds as an eerie swirl of English, German and Turkish words fills the dark room. A shadowy figure rises beneath a heavy black cloak. That shadow is Chicago dancer ...