Ida Herion Explained

Ida Herion (1876–1959) was a female German dance teacher, who from 1912 ran a dance school in Stuttgart named "Schule für Musik und Körperkultur".

In the 1920s Herion's students were the subject of two books with photographical illustrations. ^[1]

Herion's dance school has been regarded as providing a distinctively modernist view of nudity and the body:

Notes and References

1. Paul Isenfels: Getanzte Harmonien. Stuttgart 1927; Max Adolphi, Arno Kettmann: Tanzkunst und Kunsttanz aus der Tanzgruppe Herion Stuttgart. Stuttgart ca. 1928; Judith Breuer: Der Marmorsaal in Stuttgart. In: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg. Nachrichtenblatt des Landesdenkmalamtes 15, 1986, page 142 - 146, especially page 144, 146; Klaus Steinke: Teehaus, Tanz und Berg der Wahrheit. Tübingen 2018, page 145 - 198