Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut Bremen

From around the mid-sixties of the last century, choreographers in Germany began to look for new means of expression. It was above all the spirit of optimism of the student movement with its critical questioning of politics and society that also inspired choreographers to try out new ways in their art form.

 

1968 took over Johann Kresnik the director of the ballet in Bremen and provoked with his socially critical political revues. In 1973 Pina Bausch the director of the Tanztheater Wuppertal and attracted a lot of attention with her poetic border crossings between dance and acting. In 1978 Reinhild Hoffmann went to Bremen and established her version of a more dance-oriented, image-rich dance theatre. With the Folkwang Tanzstudiodeveloped Susanne Linkeher first works, impressive in their reduction.

 

The new form, which combined poetry with social awareness, enjoyed increasing success from the late 1970s onwards and has since achieved world renown. Dance theatre has initiated an emancipation of dance worldwide and inspired numerous choreographers to develop their own.

 

 

(Norbert Servos)