biography
pronunciation:
[johs]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1901–79)
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| biography:
| Dancer, choreographer, teacher, and director, born in Wasseralfingen, SWC Germany. He studied ballet before meeting Laban, with whom he then worked. He was appointed director of the dance department at the Essen Folkwang School in 1927, from which the dance theatre company developed. His best-known work, The Green Table, was created in 1932. He left Germany in 1933 for England, where he formed a new group, Ballets Jooss, and toured extensively. He returned to Essen in 1949, and retired in 1969, but his works continue to be mounted by his daughter Anna Markard (1931– ). |
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