Anny Fligg Explained

Anny Fligg
Birth Name:Anna Flig
Birth Date:11 September 1862
Birth Place:Benern, Heilsberg, East Prussia[1]
Occupation:Dancer, dance educator
Years Active:1920s and 1930s

Anna Fligg, known as Anny Fligg or Annie Fligg, was a German dancer and dance educator, who taught the methods of Rudolf von Laban in London and in Australia in the 1930s.

Early life

Fligg was from East Prussia.[2] She studied dance with choreographer Rudolf von Laban in Berlin.[3]

Career

Anny Fligg taught dancing as a public art and health project, to beachgoers in Swinemunde.[4] She danced with the Berlin State Opera, and at Bayreuth.[5] In 1928 she was one of the principal dancers in an experimental work by Hertha Feist, Die Berufung, with music by Edmund Meisel, and costumes by Thea Schleusner.[6]

Fligg first danced in London in 1930. She opened the first school for Laban's methods in London,[7] [8] and was a teacher at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art beginning in 1931.[9] "Fräulein Fligg beat a drum and away we went," recalled actress Joan Littlewood, one of her students there. "Up! Down! Leap! Stretch! ... It was great. I'd never felt so alive."[10] One of her other London students was Australian dancer Irene Vera Young.[11] [12]

At the invitation of Thea Stanley Hughes,[13] Fligg danced and lectured in Australia in 1937 and 1938,[14] with accompanist Kurt Herweg-Hirsch.[15] She demonstrated the "ikosaeder" or "wooden crystal", a geometric device used in the Laban method for teaching about space.[16] [17] "My art has no relation to health at all," she explained, "but those who aim at physical perfection through exercise must gain inspiration from the natural beauty of flowing rhythm, which draw all anatomical muscles into play while dancing."[18]

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Notes and References

  1. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NPKR-DTY "Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898"
  2. News: Noted German Dancer Decided On Career As A Child. 1938-05-27. Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954). 2020-04-03. 11. Trove.
  3. Book: Quin, Sally. Bauhaus on the Swan: Elise Blumann, an Émigré Artist in Western Australia, 1938-1948. 2015. Government Printing Office. 978-1-74258-598-7. 57. en.
  4. News: GERMAN DANCER; Fraulein Fligg to Visit Australia. 1937-12-16. Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954). 2020-04-03. 24. Trove.
  5. News: Women -- Real and Imaginary. 1938-05-03. Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954). 2020-04-03. 3. Trove.
  6. Book: Toepfer, Karl Eric. Empire of Ecstasy: Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture, 1910-1935. 1997. University of California Press. 978-0-520-91827-6. 253. en.
  7. Book: Hodgson, John. Mastering Movement: The Life and Work of Rudolf Laban. 2001. Psychology Press. 978-0-87830-080-8. 102. en.
  8. Book: Brissenden. Alan. Australia Dances: Creating Australian Dance 1945-1965. Glennon. Keith. 2010. Wakefield Press. 978-1-86254-802-2. 186. en.
  9. Book: Evans, Mark. Movement Training for the Modern Actor. 2009-01-13. Routledge. 978-1-135-89294-4. 55, 73. en.
  10. Book: Littlewood, Joan. Joan's Book: The Autobiography of Joan Littlewood. 2016-07-28. Bloomsbury Publishing. 978-1-4742-3324-8. en.
  11. http://archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110094359 Irene Vera Young - papers, 1901-1964
  12. News: Dancer Here On Visit From London. 1938-04-06. Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1931 - 1954). 2020-04-03. 9. Trove.
  13. News: Miss Annie Fligg. 1937-11-25. The Age. 2020-04-03. 3. Newspapers.com.
  14. News: Crowd Laughs with Dancer; Health League Display. 1938-04-25. The Sydney Morning Herald. 2020-04-03. 3. Newspapers.com.
  15. News: MISS ANNY FLIGG.. 1938-05-03. Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954). 2020-04-03. 4. Trove.
  16. News: Geometric Device for Dancers; Fraulein Anny Fligg in Sydney. 1938-04-06. The Sydney Morning Herald. 2020-04-03. 8. Newspapers.com.
  17. News: Expressing Rhythm of Life In Dancing. 1938-04-04. Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954). 2020-04-03. 15. Trove.
  18. News: NOTED CREATIVE DANCER TO VISIT ADELAIDE. 1938-05-24. Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954). 2020-04-03. 8. Trove.

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