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Kurt Jooss was born on 12 January, 1901 in Wasseralfingen, Germany, is a German ballet dancer and choreographer. Discover Kurt Jooss's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 78 years old?

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Occupation Ballet dancer, choreographer
Age 78 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 12 January 1901
Birthday 12 January
Birthplace Wasseralfingen, Germany
Date of death 22 May, 1979
Died Place Heilbronn, West Germany
Nationality Germany

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1901

Kurt Jooss (12 January 1901 – 22 May 1979) was a famous German ballet dancer and choreographer mixing classical ballet with theatre; he is also widely regarded as the founder of Tanztheater.

Jooss is noted for establishing several dance companies, including most notably, the Folkwang Tanztheater, in Essen.

Jooss was born in Wasseralfingen, Germany.

From an early age he was interested in singing, drama and visual arts, he also played the piano and was a keen photographer.

1920

He began his career in the 1920s and from 1920 to 1924 studied under and danced lead roles in the choreography of Rudolf von Laban (who was a trained visual artist and developer of dance theory) and the movement named Ausdruckstanz.

Jooss used narratives and modern theatre styles to make performable works of Dance Theatre, further developing the work of Laban and his system of notation.

Within a year of leaving Laban, Jooss took the opportunity to establish his own dance company called, Die Neue Tanzbühne.

It was here Jooss met Fritz Cohen, the Jewish composer who worked with Jooss on many of his famous pieces.

Jooss and Cohen shared the belief that choreography and musical composition should evolve together to give expression of the dramatic idea in unified style and form.

1925

In 1925 Jooss and Sigurd Leeder joined a group of artists and opened a new dance school called "Westfälische Akademie für Bewegung, Sprache und Musik".

1926

Jooss and Leeder went to Paris in 1926 to study classical ballet with Russian ballerina Lubov Egorova.

1927

In 1927 Jooss and Leeder's work Dance of Death was criticised for being too avant-garde; this resulted in the theatre of Münster changing personnel and programs.

Because of this, many of Jooss's colleagues left.

The same year Jooss moved the "Westfälische Akademie" to Essen, and it became the Folkwang Schule.

Jooss disliked plotless dances and preferred themes that addressed moral issues.

Naturalistic movement, large-scale unison and characterisation were used by Jooss to address political concerns of the time.

1932

His most important choreographic work, The Green Table (1932), had won first prize at an international competition for new choreography held by the Archives Internationales de la Danse in Paris in 1932.

It was a strong anti-war statement, and was made a year before Adolf Hitler became the chancellor of Germany.

The Green Table is considered his most popular piece.

A piece he choreographed at this time was a light-hearted one (in comparison to The Green Table) named "Ball in Old Vienna (1932)".

1933

In 1933 Jooss was forced to flee Germany when the Nazis asked him to dismiss the Jews from his company and he refused.

Jooss and Leeder (and doubtless Fritz Cohen and other members of his original company) took refuge in the Netherlands before resettling in England.

After touring in Europe and America, Jooss and Leeder opened a school at Dartington Hall in Devon.

1934

In 1934, whilst in England Jooss added new works to his repertoire, including Pandora (1944), contained disturbing images of human disaster and tragedy, which was later interpreted by some as foretelling the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan a year later.

1947

With his company, the Jooss Ballet went on world tours until his company disintegrated in 1947.

1949

Jooss left England in 1949 to return to Essen, Germany.

Jooss continued to teach and choreograph for 19 years.

One of his students from this period was the choreographer Pina Bausch.

1968

He retired in 1968 and died in Heilbronn, West Germany, 11 years later, aged 78, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident.

Kurt Jooss works are still performed today, especially The Green Table.

Anna Markard (Jooss' daughter) supervised companies that perform his works until her death, conserving authenticity of the author of Dance Theatre.