German Academy of Dance

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Deutsche Akademie des Tanzes was an association of people founded in 1961 and re-established as eV in 1987, with its headquarters in Cologne , which was dissolved in 1995.

History and role models

It was founded in Cologne in 1961 under the chairmanship of Aurel von Milloss and with the participation of Kurt Peters , Kurt Jooss , Mary Wigman , Gret Palucca , Yvonne Georgi , Harald Kreutzberg , Tatjana Gsovsky and others. “Based on the model of Plato in 387 BC. Founded academy ”should be“ a place of close personal contact, in which the work takes place in dialogue and in a living human relationship. ”But models were also the Académie Royale de danse (1661) and the Academy of Dance Teaching, founded in 1873 in Berlin, whose prominent members included Amint Freising and to whom Friedrich Albert Zorn had submitted his grammar of dance teaching for evaluation before publication. Various attempts to set up a dance academy in conjunction with a training institute are also worth mentioning, namely the German dance masters headed by Rudolf von Laban in Berlin before the Second World War and his attempts, together with Olga Brandt-Knack and later with Kurt Peters to set up an academy of dance in Hamburg after the war. The goals of the German Academy of Dance aimed for by Milloss in 1961 were not achieved, however, in particular due to his leaving the Cologne University of Music and his departure from Germany. In 1987 the former editor Kurt Peters reestablished the academy as an association of persons in the legal form of a non-profit registered association. She formed the Federal Republic of Germany section in the Conseil International de la Danse (CIDD), UNESCO , Paris and was a member of the German Cultural Council / Council for Performing Arts and Dance.

aims

The German Academy of Dance wanted to strengthen the position of dance in society. She saw an essential area of ​​responsibility in the area of ​​dance education, which is why she repeatedly committed herself to the topic of “dance for school” and to a binding inclusion of dance in the curricula of general schools. She found another main topic in the demand for professional protection for dancers and dance teachers. She also tried, for example, to establish dance studies , which ultimately led to the establishment of the first professorship for dance studies in German-speaking countries at the Cologne University of Music and Dance . The German Academy of Dance did not want to be a training center or an umbrella organization. It ultimately failed due to the incompatibility of the constantly high organizational effort required with the management activity that cannot be financed from the membership fees of the association and therefore only performed on a voluntary basis, as well as the insufficient time possibilities of its members to devote themselves to the tasks together.

activities

The German Academy of Dance

  • organized symposia, etc. a. in Cologne, Hanover, Essen-Werden, Frankfurt am Main, Dresden (co-organizer of the 1st German-German dance symposium 1990), Hamburg and Mannheim.
  • published the magazine assemblé , named after the dance technique term of the same name, which means "jumping from one leg to both legs, usually in the 5th position", and alluding to the French verb assembler .
  • temporarily formed a "permanent conference of the heads of the dance departments at the state music academies and equivalent training institutes"
  • was a book publication series guides for dance teachers out
  • worked together with the directorates of the dance ensembles, promoted dance research through development projects and documentation, promoted exhibitions on dance and provided advice, information and coordination.

Members and honorary members

The members since the re-establishment have included, among many others, Roger George , Reinhild Hoffmann , Johann Kresnik , John Neumeier , Gert Reinholm , Bernd Schindowski , Arila Siegert , Tom Schilling , Konstanze Vernon and Hanne Wandtke . Honorary members were Rosalia Chladek , Hertha Feist , Tatjana Gsovsky , Niddy Impekoven , Gret Palucca and finally Kurt Peters.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historical development of the academy , in: assemblé , H. 10, 1995, p. 26.
  2. ↑ Kurt Peters: Rückblick , in: assemblé , H. 1, 1987, p. 1ff., Here p. 1
  3. ^ Marieluise Jeitschko: An academy for dance in Germany. In: Welt am Sonntag , June 14, 1987.
  4. ↑ Horst Koegler , Helmut Günther (ed.): Reclams Ballettlexikon. Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 1984, p. 25