Dance Your Life - Dance Yourself
Dance Becomes Art, 1892 to 1933 Part 2: Highlights
06.12.2025 - 03.05.2026 ,
Edwin Scharff Museum (Edwin Scharff Museum)
Around 1900, the new artistic dance not only liberated the body from the corset and all convention. It became subjective, emotional, free and claimed to represent an independent artistic genre. The 1920s became the heyday of expressive dance. Important dancers founded an entire network of dance schools, experimented with large amateur formations and organised dance congresses.
The new dance finally conquered the theatre and opera stages. Group dance increasingly replaced the initial solo dance.
More and more artists became interested in its forms of movement and saw modern dance concepts as a parallel to their own reflections on the turbulent years of the Weimar Republic. There are tendencies towards abstraction as well as dance as kinetic sculpture. At the same time, dance depicted the fundamental questions of human destiny, was socially critical and political or religious-spiritual. The Edwin Scharff Museum (Edwin Scharff Museum) will be tracing this exciting dialogue for the first time with this exhibition.
Last edited on 28.11.2025
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