Everybody Dances. The Cosmos of Viennese Dance Modernism 21 March 2019 – 10 February 2020 Lobkowitzplatz 2, 1010 Wien
[email protected] T +43 1 525 24 5315 About the Exhibition During the first third of the 20th century Vienna ranked amongst the most important international centres of Modern Dance. The exhibition, organised in cooperation with the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien (MUK), attempts to inscribe significant female dancers into Vienna’s great historical narrative. It focuses on dancers, choreographers and teachers such as Isadora Duncan, Grete Wiesenthal, Gertrud Bodenwieser and Rosalia Chladek as well as Valeria Kratina, Gertrud Kraus, Hilde Holger and others who were the pioneers for the European Modernism. The show illustrates the variety and concentration of a female-dominated dance scene which was destroyed by Nazi dictatorship and further developed in exile. Threads are spun between the productive and socio-critical spirit of that time and today through enduring movement techniques of Modernism and related topics. Hence, the exhibition, curated by Andrea Amort and designed by Thomas Hamann, concludes with film contributions by Amanda Piña, Doris Uhlich, Thomas Kampe and Simon Wachsmuth. The starting point for the exhibition was the donation of the extensive legacy of texts by the dancer, choreographer and pedagogue Rosalia Chladek (Brno 1905–1995 Vienna) to the newly established dance archive at the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien (MUK) in 2015. The Internationale Gesellschaft Rosalia Chladek (IGRC) entrusted the task of making it accessible to Andrea Amort. The Theatermuseum will take over this valuable material comprising more than a hundred boxes after this has been achieved.