Jean Weidt was a German choreographer and dancer, born in 1904 in Hamburg, who died in 1988.
Biography
Jean Weidt is the name generally used by and in respect of Hans Weidt (7 October 1904 – 29 August 1988) who was a dancer and choreographer. As a young man he participated in the Hamburg Uprising. He was born and died in Germany, but between 1933 and 1948 he made his life outside Nazi Germany, chiefly but by no means exclusively living and working in Paris.
Jean Weidt is identified in several sources as a pioneer of expressionist choreography.
Contemporaries
Ria Thiele
German actress, dancer, and choreographer
Yvonne Georgi
German ballet dancer (1903–1975)
Bessie Schonberg
German dancer, choreographer and teacher (1906-1997)
Harald Kreutzberg
German dancer and choreographer (1902–1968)
Ruth Abramovitsch Sorel
German choreographer, dancer, artistic director and teacher (1907–1974)
Else Klink
German Eurythmist
Kurt Jooss
German dancer, choreographer and influential art dance educator (1901-1979)
Lea Niako
German dancer and actress
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