Ellinor Tordis
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 Ellinor Tordis, photographed by Anton Josef Trčka in 1926. |
Ellinor Tordis, pseudonym of Ellinor Wachsmuth[1] (1895–1973) was an Austrian dancer and dance educator in Vienna in the 1920s.
Career
Tordis danced as a member of the Münchener Tanz-Drei,[2] and ran a school in Vienna,[3] focused on movement ideas from modern dance and gymnastics.[4][5] Among her students were dancers Gisela Taglicht[6] and Hans Wiener (Jan Veen),[7] and actress Vilma Degischer.[8] Her accompanist for a time was pianist and dancer Gertrud Kraus,[2] and Anne Winter headed the gymnastics department.[9]
Tordis was a proponent of coordinated mass gymnastics, or Bewegungschöre, as positive expressions of social unity and public health.[10][11] She and her group performed at the Festival of Music and Theatre in Vienna in 1924.[12]
