Franziska Boas

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Marie Franziska Boas (born January 8, 1902 in New York , † December 22, 1988 in Sandisfield , Massachusetts ) was an American dance teacher , choreographer and dance therapist .

Life

Franziska Boas - the youngest child of six children of German-born anthropologist Franz Boas (1858–1942) and his wife Marie Krackowizer (1861–1929) - went to school in Englewood , New Jersey , and received a bachelor's degree in zoology and chemistry in 1923 Barnard College at Columbia University in New York, where her father was a professor of anthropology from 1899 to 1936. Her oldest brother Ernst Philip Boas (1891–1955) was a cardiologist . During her studies, Franziska Boas took dance courses with Bird Larson. After completing her bachelor's degree, she studied drawing and sculpture with Robert Laurent and Boardman Robinson in New York. In 1927 Franziska Boas took dance lessons from Mary Wigman in Dresden.

After her return from Germany, Franziska Boas and the doctor Nicholas Michelson married in 1928, with whom she had a daughter. In 1942 the couple divorced.

In 1933 she founded the Boas School of Dance in New York, of which she was director until 1949. She attached great importance to racial equality. Students were u. a .:

In 1944 Franziska Boas founded the Boas Summer School of Dance on Lake George in Bolton Landing, New York. In the 1940s Franziska Boas worked regularly at Bellevue Hospital in New York and tried out the use of dance therapy in the treatment of schizophrenic children with Laretta Bender . From 1947 to 1949 she toured the USA with dance and perccussion performances and gave lectures on dance. Franziska Boas examined dance therapy in collaboration with various universities and institutes.

From 1950 to 1965 Franziska Boas was director of the Dance and Physical Education Department at Shorter College in Rome , Georgia . In 1955 she organized the Georgia Dance Association.

Publications

  • Creative Dance as Therapy. In: American Journal fo Orthopsychiatry , 1941.
  • Psychological Aspects in the Practice and Teaching of Dancing. In: Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism , 1941.
  • The Function of Dance in Human Society. A seminar . 1944 u. Brooklyn Dance Horizons 1972 ISBN 0871270323

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SURNAME Boas, Franziska
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boas, Marie Franziska (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American dance teacher, choreographer and dance therapist
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH new York
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1988
Place of death Sandisfield , Massachusetts