Judith Mackrell, "Mary Wigman: a dance pioneer with an awkward past ... fallen in step with the Nazis", 22 mai 2013, The Guardian : "Wigman was far more complicit with the Third Reich than her fellow choreographer Kurt Jooss, who left Germany in 1933 (her mentor Rudolf Laban also cut links, but not until 1938). While her early choreography was not to official taste, she was sufficiently in step with the early Volk-inspired philosophy of the Reich to receive a commission to choreograph a mass Olympic Youth dance for the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. And while she was privately sympathetic to Jewish students in her Dresden school, she didn't rebel against orders to remove Jewish dancers from her company.
However the 1937 edict by Goebbels that dance "must be cheerful and show beautiful female bodies and have nothing to do with philosophy" put a halt on her career. While she seems to have been personally protected by her relationship with a prominent arms manufacturer, Wigman's company was closed, and when her protector died in 1942, so was her school." [2]
