Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Mary Wigman

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Last updated on November 18, 2024.

Mary Wigman was a German dancer and choreographer, notable as the pioneer of expressionist dance, dance therapy, and movement training without pointe shoes. She is considered one of the most important figures in the history of modern dance. She became one of the most iconic figures of Weimar German culture and her work was hailed for bringing the deepest of existential experiences to the stage.

November 13, 1886 - September 18, 1973

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The dance grew into a colorful flower bouquet which caught and contained the glow of sun-happy summer days, the secret of star-studded nights, and the wistful sweetness of overcast and rainy hours.

Mary Wigman

If I could say with words what my dances express, I wouldn’t have a reason to dance.

Mary Wigman

In all my unhappiness I was moving, and suddenly, this moving became an expression, a speaking out

Mary Wigman

Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories.

Mary Wigman

I knew that, without killing the creative mood, I had to keep the balance between my emotional outburst and the merciless discipline of a super-personal control, thus submitting myself ti the self-imposed law of dance composition

Mary Wigman

Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening.

Mary Wigman

Sometimes at night I slipped into the studio and worked myself up into a rhythmic intoxication to come closer to the slowly rising character. I could feel how everything pointed toward a clearly defined dance figure. The richness of rhythmic ideas was overwhelming

Mary Wigman

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Mary Wigman

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