Choreographer · Dancer

Jarmila Kröschlová

Czech choreographer, dancer and university educator (1893-1983)

Born 1893 · PragueDied 1983Austria–HungaryCzechoslovakia
Jarmila Kröschlová
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Jarmila Kröschlová was a choreographer and dancer, born in 1893 in Prague, who died in 1983.

Biography

Jarmila Kröschlová (19 March 1893 – 9 January 1983) was one of the most important representatives of modern dance in Czechoslovakia. She was one of the leading European expressionist dancers and as a choreographer had wide influence on other dancers, through her teaching and theoretical writings on dance. Working with the Czech avant-garde theater, producing librettos and as a professor in the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, she advanced modern dance and pantomime with her theories of movement.

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