Bewegungen / Movements
Suzanne Perrottet (1889â1983) grew up in Geneva, studied rhythmics with Ămile Jaques-Dalcroze and taught in Hellerau, where Mary Wigman was one of her pupils. In 1912, she met the dancer, choreographer, and theorist Rudolf von Laban, moved with him to the Monte VeritĂ artistsâ colony near Ascona and later to ZĂŒrich, where she performed at the Dada soirĂ©es. The summer of 1913 was a great turning point on Monte VeritĂ ! Along with Laban, Wigman, and others, Perrottet discovered the expressive power of natural movements and gestures, of sounds and words. It was the birth of modern dance. Everyone was to benefit from the spirit of natural movement; the goal was to liberate body and mind.
In 1920 Perrottet founded a school in ZĂŒrich. There she not only taught dancers, actors, children, and adults, including the physically and mentally impaired, but also devoted herself to intense, ongoing research. To compensate the lack of literature available in this new field, she started cutting pictures of movements, gestures, and physical expressions out of magazines. In the course of 60 years, she amassed an archive of over 10,000 pictures, which she classified by categories. Suzanne Perrottet continued working until she was 89 years old. After she died, her banana boxes of clippings were forgotten. Rediscovered in this book, edited by Giorgio Wolfensberger, they give an insight into a unique collectionâa visual archive of movement.
280 pages, 21 x 29.7 cm, softcover, Edition Patrick Frey (Zurich).
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Bewegungen / Movements
Suzanne Perrottet (1889â1983) grew up in Geneva, studied rhythmics with Ămile Jaques-Dalcroze and taught in Hellerau, where Mary Wigman was one of her pupils. In 1912, she met the dancer, choreographer, and theorist Rudolf von Laban, moved with him to the Monte VeritĂ artistsâ colony near Ascona and later to ZĂŒrich, where she performed at the Dada soirĂ©es. The summer of 1913 was a great turning point on Monte VeritĂ ! Along with Laban, Wigman, and others, Perrottet discovered the expressive power of natural movements and gestures, of sounds and words. It was the birth of modern dance. Everyone was to benefit from the spirit of natural movement; the goal was to liberate body and mind.
In 1920 Perrottet founded a school in ZĂŒrich. There she not only taught dancers, actors, children, and adults, including the physically and mentally impaired, but also devoted herself to intense, ongoing research. To compensate the lack of literature available in this new field, she started cutting pictures of movements, gestures, and physical expressions out of magazines. In the course of 60 years, she amassed an archive of over 10,000 pictures, which she classified by categories. Suzanne Perrottet continued working until she was 89 years old. After she died, her banana boxes of clippings were forgotten. Rediscovered in this book, edited by Giorgio Wolfensberger, they give an insight into a unique collectionâa visual archive of movement.
280 pages, 21 x 29.7 cm, softcover, Edition Patrick Frey (Zurich).
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Suzanne Perrottet (1889â1983) grew up in Geneva, studied rhythmics with Ămile Jaques-Dalcroze and taught in Hellerau, where Mary Wigman was one of her pupils. In 1912, she met the dancer, choreographer, and theorist Rudolf von Laban, moved with him to the Monte VeritĂ artistsâ colony near Ascona and later to ZĂŒrich, where she performed at the Dada soirĂ©es. The summer of 1913 was a great turning point on Monte VeritĂ ! Along with Laban, Wigman, and others, Perrottet discovered the expressive power of natural movements and gestures, of sounds and words. It was the birth of modern dance. Everyone was to benefit from the spirit of natural movement; the goal was to liberate body and mind.
In 1920 Perrottet founded a school in ZĂŒrich. There she not only taught dancers, actors, children, and adults, including the physically and mentally impaired, but also devoted herself to intense, ongoing research. To compensate the lack of literature available in this new field, she started cutting pictures of movements, gestures, and physical expressions out of magazines. In the course of 60 years, she amassed an archive of over 10,000 pictures, which she classified by categories. Suzanne Perrottet continued working until she was 89 years old. After she died, her banana boxes of clippings were forgotten. Rediscovered in this book, edited by Giorgio Wolfensberger, they give an insight into a unique collectionâa visual archive of movement.
280 pages, 21 x 29.7 cm, softcover, Edition Patrick Frey (Zurich).
