Mary Wigman's Witch Dance

An intro about Mary Wigman and a short clip of her "Witch Dance."

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  Film & Animation

[Bruno Kyzumi]

Anyone know which movie that ending is from?

[Bob DeNatale]

It's from a silent film by Fritz Lang called Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler

[rkcsam69]

this bitch was crazy

[burrben]

so creepy, i love it

[Meelloohh]

This clip was in my art history exam, actually. Yesterday that was. Pretty interesting to see it.

[bbcrumbs]

With no explanation as to how it got that way, his giant floating head was almost always getting lost. This eventually involved having the head looked after, by a multitude of professional headsitters•

[Mark Patterson]

AND the famous line from the butler as guests come to dr. mabuse's house to party, """CARDS OR COCAINE"',wow,germany in early twenties was quite quite wild,WHAT A DECISION,also the movie had some of the most beautiful german expressionist art,and furniture I HAVE EVER SEEN

[12tonemusic]

... Pina Bausch knew . . .

[lovelylittleleeches]

Is this from a documentary? If so what's it called? I'm doing a report on her :)

[experimentalactor]

thank you for posting this! i was at MOMA yesterday and I saw this same Wigman projection. I don't think the viewers found it creepy, they didn't seem scared, but they definitely found it fascinating! I just wish that this kind of passion was in some dance concerts that i go to now-a-days. it all seems bland to me, since postmodernism took emotion away from dance -with greats like Cunningham and Trisha Brown its confused the new generation. maybe if they studied Wigman, things might change!

[itslali03]

I admire her a lot. The fact that she started late in dance and still made her mark is really awesome :) she's still creepy, though.

[rkcsam69]

Romatism??? Freakism more like. I took Dance Appreciation and this shit scared me

[dinoelsaurio]

And yet, pop culture will never be this avant-garde...

[Bruno Kyzumi]

and asked about it, figuring no one would actually answer. Today you answered me and just out of curiosity I checked your profile and you happen to have clips of that same japanese dancer I had been looking for! Thank you!