Moved Bodies. Choreographies of modernity

Moved Bodies. Choreographies of modernity is a temporary exhibition project for MS1 Museum of Art in Łódź, Poland.

With its starting point in the sculptural theory and practice of Katarzyna Kobro, the exhibition raises a question about the bodily and movement-related experience of modernity. The first half of the 20th century was the period of revolutionary ferment, from which a new man - that of the modernism era – was emerging. Women pioneering in modernist dance, e.g., Loïe Fuller or Isadora Duncan, broke with the rigid constraints of classical ballet forms and introduced freedom of expression into dance. In the early 20th century, the interest in body in motion translated into researching the its anatomical determinants and experimentation.

Artists:/Artyści: Akarova, Tomasz Bazan, Busby Berkeley, Fred Boissonnas, Giannina Censi, Chamber Dance Group, Rosalia Chladek, Émil-Jaques Dalcroze, Sonia Delaunay, Jane Dudley, Isadora Duncan, Noa Eshkol, Karolina Fandrejewska, Loïe Fuller, Martha Graham, Kurt Jooss, Katarzyna Kobro, Zygmunt Krauze, Rudolf Laban, Wsiewołod Meyerhold, The New Dance Group, Gret Palucca, Leni Riefenstahl, Józef Robakowski, Valentine de Saint-Point, Oskar Schlemmer, Edith Segal, Noa Shadur, Vera Skoronel, Władysław Strzemiński, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Helen Tamiris, Jean Weidt, Mary Wigman, Maria Zimpel.