Anna Markard

Anna Markard , also Anna Markard-Jooss (born March 1, 1931 in Essen , † October 19, 2010 ), was a German dancer, teacher and ballet master.

Life

She was the older daughter of the dance teacher and choreographer Kurt Jooss and his wife Aino Siimola nee. Right to live. After her family emigrated in 1933, she grew up in Dartington, England. In London she studied dance at the Sigurd Leeder School of Dance, then at the Folkwang School in Essen and finally classical ballet with Nora Kiss in Paris . In 1954 she became a dancer with the Düsseldorf Opera Ballet, but she did not strive for an active career as a dancer, but worked as a teacher, lecturer and estate administrator for her father.

Anna Markard, who was married to the set designer Hermann Markard, initially worked as an assistant at the Folkwang School in Essen , then as a teacher for modern European dance at the Butler University in Indianapolis , where she was one of the founding members of the new Folkwang Ballet and rehearsals -Ballet master was. From 1960 she taught again as a lecturer at the Folkwang School in Essen.

In 1971 she left the Folkwang School to devote herself entirely to rehearsing her father's ballets. In several countries she led master classes for contemporary dance, most recently with the ballet of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein .

Together with her sister, she owned the rights to Jooss' estate. She set up the Jooss archive and worked on the publication of the scores of Jooss works in Laban notation. In 2001, on the occasion of Kurt Jooss' 100th birthday, she founded the Kurt Jooss Prize, endowed with 6000 euros, which is advertised internationally by the Anna and Hermann Markard Foundation and the City of Essen and awarded every three years.

literature

• Horst Koegler, Helmut Günther: Reclams Ballettlexikon , Stuttgart, Reclam, 1984, ISBN 3-15-010328-2

Web links

• Joss' daughter Anna Markard has died
• Anna Markard died published on October 19, 2010, by Angela Reinhardt in News 2010/2011