New artistic dance

Newer Artistic Dance (NKT) refers to modern dance or expressive dance . The term originates from the 1920s and was reactivated in 1951 by Gret Palucca as a name for her educational dance concept and alienated by the abbreviation NKT, which was also introduced.

Palucca's conflicts with the SED's cultural policy are considered to be the cause of the new terminology, because the resolution of the SED Central Committee of March 17, 1951 to combat formalism in art threatened the Palucca School in Dresden to be transformed into a ballet school based on the Soviet model . Palucca tried to defend her pedagogical ideals under the term NKT and by avoiding the term expressive dance to keep modern dance in the curriculum of the Palucca School.

Acceptance by the SED cultural policy of the NKT received only from 1958 through the staging migratory birds and darken the sky are our enemies by Ruth Berghaus , which the New Artistic Dance with the Socialist Realism united.

literature

• Erdmann-Rajski, Katja: Gret Palucca. Dance and dance experience in Germany in the 20th century. Weimar Republic, National Socialism, German Democratic Republic. Edited by the German Dance Archive Cologne . Dissertation. Olms, Hildesheim 2000. ISBN 3487111438
• Stabel, Ralf: Leading you to your own way of thinking and acting. History of the Palucca School Dresden 1925 to 1964. In: Stabel, Ralf (Ed.): Palucca School Dresden. History and stories . Philo Verlagsgesellschaft, Dresden 2000. ISBN 9789057051579
• Stabel, Ralf: Forwards - backwards - sideways - with and without a change in the front. On the history of the Palucca School Dresden. Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2002. ISBN 3795907993