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Shifting: Worker Culture and Life Reform in the Madzsar School

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2013

Tyrus Miller
Tyrus Miller*
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University of California at Santa Cruz
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This recent exhibition in Budapest assembles a fascinating documentation of the life and work of Dr. Alice Madzsar-Jászi (Photo 1), who, from her first opening of a dance school in 1912 to her untimely death in 1935, wove an intricate path through the cultural, political, and artistic avant-gardes of modern Hungary. At the turn of the century, just ten years before Madzsar launched her school, Isadora Duncan had made her solo debut in Budapest, where her improvisation to Strauss's “Blue Danube Waltz” had affected the Hungarian audience like “an electric shock” (Duncan 1927: 74). Madzsar was one of the key figures to channel that early modernist shock into the collective body electric in an increasingly diversified set of dance-related body practices, including free dance, movement culture for women's health, avant-garde theater, worker's sport, recitation choruses, and collective spectacles (Photo 2).

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Review Articles
Information
Dance Research Journal , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , August 2013 , pp. 124 - 131
Copyright
Copyright © Congress on Research in Dance 2013 

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