Bess Mensendieck (1 July 1864 New York City - 27 January 1957, born Elizabeth Marguerite de Varel Mensendieck) was an American physician and gymnastics...

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...

expressly addresses women, for example with gymnastics according to Bess Mensendieck, and shows sports training in a civilian function, for example for self-defense...

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...

instruction she added ballet, period manners and movement (William Burdick), Mensendieck, Yoga (Acharya and Hatha), and tai chi. Voice and speech training was...

personalities as Rudolf Laban, Mary Wigman, Elsa Gindler, Heinrich Jacoby, Bess Mensendieck, Loheland school (Louise Langgaard e Hedwig von Rohden) and Anna Herrmann...

dealt with the sometimes quite different gymnastics methods of Bess Mensendieck, Rudolf Bode, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Dora Menzler [de] and the anthroposophical...

in that it not only taught dance with special attention to anatomy, Mensendieck gymnastics, history of dance, music, costumes and scenography, but covered...

began studying with Helena Vojáčková, who taught movement based on the Mensendieck system at the Émile Jaques-Dalcroze Society in Prague. Completing her...

Actress Kitty Aschenbach (1925); rhythmic gymnastics after Dr. Bode, Mensendieck and Loheland (1925); dancer and actress Niddy Impekoven (1926); actress...

aware of new developments in dance through the German Youth Movement and Mensendieck students, he began reporting on dance that had nothing to do with ballet...

tinsmith. She studied dance and movement with Ellinor Tordis and Bess Mensendieck. Her mother and sister were later killed at Auschwitz. Taglicht assisted...