- Bess
Mensendieck (1 July 1864 New York City - 27
January 1957, born
Elizabeth Marguerite de
Varel Mensendieck) was an
American physician and gymnastics...
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Adolf Koch
early pioneer of the
German Freikörperkultur
movement Bess
Mensendieck early pioneer of the
German feminist Freikörperkultur
movement Naturism...
- in 1916. In 1919, Pogány
moved to Hamburg, Germany, and
studied the
Mensendieck system of
physical education. On
receiving her diploma, two
years later...
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expressly addresses women, for
example with
gymnastics according to Bess
Mensendieck, and
shows sports training in a
civilian function, for
example for self-defense...
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personalities as
Rudolf Laban, Mary Wigman, Elsa Gindler,
Heinrich Jacoby, Bess
Mensendieck,
Loheland school (Louise
Langgaard e
Hedwig von Rohden) and Anna Herrmann...
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instruction she
added ballet,
period manners and
movement (William Bur****),
Mensendieck, Yoga (Acharya and Hatha), and tai chi.
Voice and
speech training was...
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dealt with the
sometimes quite different gymnastics methods of Bess
Mensendieck,
Rudolf Bode, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Dora Menzler [de] and the anthroposophical...
- and grew up with
family members in Oslo and Bergen. In 1950 he
married Mensendieck system teacher Sidsel Hosche Morland. In the same year he
graduated from...
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began studying with
Helena Vojáčková, who
taught movement based on the
Mensendieck system at the Émile Jaques-Dalcroze
Society in Prague.
Completing her...
- in that it not only
taught dance with
special attention to anatomy,
Mensendieck gymnastics,
history of dance, music,
costumes and scenography, but covered...
