Oda Schottmueller performing one of her solo mask dances in Berlin, ca. 1938.
Congratulations“Solo Dancing in Central Europe and Early Modernism,” in On Stage Alone, edited by Claudia Gitelman and Barbara Palfy, University Press of Florida, 2013.
This article discusses different kinds of solo dance and dancers in Central Europe from about 1905 to 1940 and describes the remarkable inventiveness of dancers in developing a mode of dance performance that is now very rare and difficult to master in our time.
