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Identity Peddlers and the Influence of Gertrud Kraus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2013

Judith Brin Ingber
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Abstract

Gertrud Kraus, Jewish expressionist modern dancer, directed a company and school both in interwar Vienna and in Tel Aviv after she fled the Nazis in 1935. This paper examines her work as both a Diaspora and Israeli dance artist and her influence on the identities of different dancers who in turn affected American audiences, students, and dancers. Some of the Kraus dancers who emigrated to America from Vienna before and during World War II included Jan Veen, Fred Berk, Katya Delakova, and Claudia Vall; from Israel they included Ze'eva Cohen and Zvi Gotheiner, whose latest work, Gertrud premiered in 2007 in New York.

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Research Article
Information
Congress on Research in Dance Conference Proceedings , Volume 39 , supplement S1: Choreographies Of Migration: Patterns Of Global Mobility , 2007 , pp. 100 - 105
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2007

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