Gertrud Bodenwieser and Vienna's contribution to Ausdruckstanz / edited by Bettina Vernon-Warren and Charles Warren.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART I: Bodenwieser's Inspirations -- 1. Vienna : to give an inkling of its nature and culture / George Jackson -- 2. A driving force towards the new. Bodenwieser - exponent of Ausdruckstanz / Gunhild Oberzaucher-Schüller -- 3. Who were the teachers of Gertrud Bodenwieser? Educational opportunities and dance activity during the pioneering period of modern dance in Vienna / Alfred Oberzaucher and Gunhild Oberzaucher-Schüller -- 4. Gertrud Bodenwieser : dance for the theater / Jarmila Weissenböck -- 5. The Bodenwieser style : extracts from Bettina Vernon's archives, lectures, memoirs and notes / edited by Charles Warren --
6. Bodenweiser teaching in Vienna and Australia : extracts from Bettina Vernon's archives, lectures, memoirs, videos and notes, together with Innes Murdoch's verbatim record of the grades for a teacher's certificate / compiled by Charles Warren -- PART II: Contributions and Letters from Former Members of the Bodenwieser Ballet and Marie Cuckson -- 7. The early days / Hilde Holger -- 8. A dancer speaks / Hede Juer -- 9. A note on "The Ford system" / Hede Juer -- 10. Vienna revisited in memory / Helen Elton -- 11. Working with Bodenwieser in the thirties / Emmy Steininger -- 12. The emigration of Gertrud Bodenwieser and her dancers / Emmy Steininger -- 13. "I always remained a Bodenwieser dancer" / Evelyn Ippen -- 14. Bodenwieser's lasting influence from 1926 to 1995 / Bettina Vernon -- 15. Learning an exhiliration and a joy / Innes Murdoch -- 16. Vision / Coralie Hinkley -- 17. Bodenwieser's last five years / Marie Cuckson -- 18. Bodenwieser's final message to young dancers -- Chronology / by Patricia Grayburn -- Choreochronicle / by Jarmila Weissenböck -- Bettina Vernon-Warren: A eulogy / by Christian Lanzer -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.