Jooss

[yohs]

noun

1. Kurt 1901–79, German ballet dancer and choreographer.

Example Sentences

And this, like Jooss’s, is a dark dance about military might and weak integrity.

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Pite’s “The Statement” brought Kurt Jooss’s iconic 1932 antiwar ballet “The Green Table” to mind.

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Wigman died before Eiko and Koma could meet her, but before they moved to New York, in 1976, they worked in Europe with Manja Chmiel, a Wigman disciple, and came to discover the German dancers Harald Kreutzberg and Dore Hoyer, and, later, Kurt Jooss and Pina Bausch.

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In the ’60s, the company staged a landmark revival of Kurt Jooss’s political masterpiece “The Green Table.”

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Jooss created the dance in Germany as Hitler was rising to power, but what follows in the next six tableaus is about more than war.

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