Bearnstow Journal (Vol. I) — The Nikolais Heritage, articles by Ruth E. Grauert

“Dignitaries” from Imago, 1963

• “The Theater of Alwin Nikolais”
  Details of Nikolais’ use light, sound, properties, and motion in the production of his ballets, 1949–1978
  
  
• “The Dance Theatre of Alwin Nikolais”
  Foreword written for the 1963 Nikolais Dance Theatre souvenir booklet
  
  
• “Nikolais and the Bauhaus”
  Examines and compares the aesthetics of Nikolais and the Bauhaus
  
  
• “Choroscript”
  On Nikolais’s system of dance notation
  
  
• “On Murray Louis”
  An insightful analysis of the monumental collection of Louis works
  
  
• “A Remembrance of Rudolf” by Janis Brenner
  A company member’s view of working with Rudolf Nureyev and the Murray Louis Dance Company

Bearnstow Journal (Vol. II) — The Wigman Heritage

Alwin Nikolais and Mary Wigman in New York in 1958

• “My Teacher Laban”
  By Mary Wigman, ca. early 1960s.  An account of Wigman’s experience with Rudolph von Laban.
  
  
• “Interview with Hanya Holm”
  By Susan Buirge.  An excerpt concerned with Hanya Holm’s work with Mary Wigman.
  
  
• “More Recollections of the Wigman School”
  Peggy Chambers, Julie Hamilton Plues, and John Wilson
  
  
• “Beverly Blossom at the Wigman School”
  By Beverly Blossom.  Beverly’s recollections from the Wigman School, 1957–58.
  
  
• “The Wigman Experience”
  By Joan Woodbury.  Studying at the Wigman School in Berlin in 1955–56.
  
  
• “Christmas Eve with Mary Wigman: Berlin Germany 1955”
  By Joan Woodbury.  Christmas Eve at Wigman’s home.
  
  
• “Mary Wigman at Seventy”
  By Joan Woodbury.  At 70 the dance genius of Mary Wigman cannot be stilled.
  
  
• “Letters from Mary Wigman”
  By Joan Woodbury.  Excerpts from Wigman’s letters sent over a sixteen-year span.
  
  
• “My Mary: Personal Reminiscences of Learning from Wigman” By Emma Lewis Thomas. An account of the author’s experiences while studying in Paris and Berln, 1953–1959
  
  
• An Addendum—Emma Lewis Thomas
  By Joan Woodbury. 
  
  
• When the Fire Dances between Two Poles
  A Dance Horizons film (1991). Wigman explores and defines dance.

The elite of dancers and teachers in Central Europe at friendly meeting in Switzerland during last summmer's session in Maglingen. From l. to r. are Rosalia Chladek, Kurt Jooss, Harald Kreutzberg, Mary Wigman, Mme. Nora (who teaches in Paris) and Hans Zullig. Dance Magazine, Volume XXVI, No. 1, January 1952

Further Reading:  Liebe Hanya: Mary Wigman’s Letters to Hanya Holm Compiled and edited by Claudia Gitelman.  Revealing letters about modern dance in Germany and the United States, and a friendship tested by heartbreak, fascism, war, and politics. Of this book Ruth Grauert says, “It is a monumental work, tended diligently, respectfully, and with a scholarahip that certainly is to be admired.”  See Review by Ruth Grauert. November 2003, University of Wiconsin Press.  Background and purchase information from UW Press.

Bearnstow Journal (Vol. III)

Alwin Nikolais, by Arnd Wesemann, origi­nally published in Tanz magazine, July 2014; translated into English by Emma Lew Thomas. A review of the Nikolais heritage and its impact from a Euro­pean viewpoint.