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Franziska Marie Boas (January 8, 1902 – December 22, 1988) was an American dancer. She is best known for her works with percussion, pioneering dance therapy, and using dance as social activism.
- Library of Congress
- Franziska Boas collection, 1920-1988
Franziska Marie Boas (1902-1988), pioneering choreographer, dancer, percussionist, teacher, ethnologist, and therapist, was born in New York City, the youngest of six children of noted anthropologist Franz Boas (1858-1942) and Marie Krackowizer.
For several summers in the 1940s, Franziska Boas (1902–1988), Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994), and David Smith (1906–1965) forged a mutually reinforcing artistic and intellectual interchange at Bolton Landing on Lake George in upstate New York—a bucolic location that attracted many visitors, especially in warmer months.
One of the dance artists who performed at the National Dance Congress and Festival and who had been involved in organizing the event was Franziska Boas.1 Energetic and committed to using dance as a form of grassroots social activism, Boas was exactly the kind of dancer Ocko urged to take a leadership role in making dance socially relevant.
13 de sept. de 2006 · This article investigates Franziska Boas’s pioneering work as part of the arts program at Bellevue Hospital in New York. During late 1930s and early 1940s, a few modern dancers explored dance as a holistic practice.
- Allana Lindgren
- aclind@uvic.ca
- 2006
Franziska Marie Boas (8 de enero de 1902-22 de diciembre de 1988) fue una bailarina estadounidense . Es mejor conocida por sus trabajos con percusión, siendo pionera en la terapia de baile y por usar la danza como activismo social.
13 de jul. de 2012 · Civil Rights Strategies in the United States: Franziska Boas's Activist Use of Dance, 1933–1965. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 July 2012. Allana C. Lindgren. Article.
