Mary Wigman's London Performances A New Dance in Search of a New Audience Carole Kew

RESUMEN: Mary Wigman (1886-1973) visited London on two occasions in order to perform her solo work. These fleeting visit ast as the backdrop to an essay on the reception of her dance in Britain. In both dance composition and in spectatorship Wigman encouraged a process of self-enquiry. This new approach challenged prevailing cultural expectations in Britain concerning the nature of dance performance. Wigman returned to Germany having made little overt impact on the dance in a more oblique way by acting as a stimulus to the inter-war drive to establish a British ballet tradition.