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Palucca come dance with me

Title: Palucca [videorecording] : come dance with me / Hirsch-Film ; a film by Konrad Hirsch and Ralf Stabel ; direction, photography, and montage by Konrad Hirsch ; produced by Ernst Hirsch ; expert advice and commentary by Ralf Stabel.
Publication: Dresden, Germany : Hirsch-Film, c2003.

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Description

1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (56 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences; 1/2 in.

Summary

Documentary on the life and career of Gret Palucca (1902-1993), a German modern dancer, choreographer, and teacher. The program traces the course of her richly eventful life: her training with Mary Wigman; the opening of her own school; her association with the Bauhaus, particularly with painter Wassily Kandinsky; her tours of Germany; her solo Serenata, marking a turning point in her work and life; her performance at the 1936 Olympic Games; the closing of her school and company under the Nazi regime; her survival of the 1945 bombing of Dresden; the reopening of the Palucca Schule Dresden, which was nationalized in 1949; her difficulties under the Communists in East Germany; the paradox of her many awards and honors in later life, coupled with the close monitoring of her actions by the East German government. Much of the program examines her special qualities as a teacher, as recalled by her students. Her impact and legacy are also explored in interviews with her colleagues and contemporaries. In the many film clips that illustrate this program, she is seen dancing in works by Mary Wigman; performing her own choreography as a solo recitalist; dancing with members of her company; and teaching young dancers at the Palucca Schule Dresden and elsewhere. Her choreography is also performed by her dance company and students.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Jody Gottfried Arnhold.

Alternative Title

Palucca Ich will nicht hübsch und lieblich tanzen!
Come dance with me

Subject

Genre/Form

Dance.
Documentaries and factual films and programs.
Video.

Note

For the original German version of the film Palucca: Ich will nicht hübsch und lieblich tanzen, see: *MGZIA 4-5941.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-8196

OCLC

NYPY05-F10249

Title

Palucca [videorecording] : come dance with me / Hirsch-Film ; a film by Konrad Hirsch and Ralf Stabel ; direction, photography, and montage by Konrad Hirsch ; produced by Ernst Hirsch ; expert advice and commentary by Ralf Stabel.

Imprint

Dresden, Germany : Hirsch-Film, c2003.

Edition

English version. Translation by Thomas Fife.

Country of Producing Entity

Germany.

Performer

Speakers: Nicola Ransom, Thomas Fife.

Interviewees: Brita Adam, Leni Riefenstahl, Klaus Geitel, Eberhard Rebling, Rudolf Arnheim, Herbert Trantow, John Neumeier, Anne-Dore Noack, Ralf Stabel, Ursula Dathe, Enno Markwart, Dietmar Seyffert, Tom Schilling, Hanne Wandtke, Alain Bernard, Horst Koczlik, Peter P. Fischer, Peter Jarchow, Arila Siegert. Gret Palucca herself also speaks in pre-recorded interviews made at various stages of her life.

Added Author

Palucca, Gret, 1902-1993, interviewee (expression)

Palucca, Gret, 1902-1993, dancer.

Palucca, Gret, 1902-1993, choreographer.

Riefenstahl, Leni, interviewee (expression)

Geitel, Klaus, interviewee (expression)

Rebling, Eberhard, 1911-2008, interviewee (expression)

Arnheim, Rudolf, interviewee (expression)

Neumeier, John, 1939- interviewee (expression)

Stabel, Ralf, interviewee (expression)

Stabel, Ralf, author.

Markwart, Enno, 1942- interviewee (expression)

Seyffert, Dietmar, interviewee (expression)

Schilling, Tom, nterviewee (expression)

Wandtke, Hanne, interviewee (expression)

Bernard, Alain, 1932- interviewee (expression)

Jarchow, Peter, interviewee (expression)

Siegert, Arila, interviewee (expression)

Hirsch, Konrad, director.

Hirsch, Ernst, producer.

Fife, Thomas, translator.

Fife, Thomas, speaker.

Ransom, Nicola, speaker.

Hirsch-Film.

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-8196

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