Angiola Elise Sartorio

1903 - 1995  (91 Jahre)

• Name	Angiola Elise Sartorio
  Geboren	30 Sep 1903	Roma (Rom), Lazio (Latium), Italien
  Geschlecht	weiblich
  Emigration	1905	England, Großbritannien
  Emigration	1914	Schweden
  Emigration	1918	Deutschland
  Emigration	1930	Paris, Ile-de-France, Frankreich
  Emigration	1932	Italien
  Emigration	1939	New York City, New York, United States (USA)
  	Flucht vor NS-Verfolgung
  Occupation/Beruf	Tänzerin, Tanzlehrerin, Choreographin
  Residence	bis 1939	Firenze (Florenz), Toscana (Toskana), Italien
  Occupation/Beruf	von 1947 bis 1954	Bar Harbor, Maine, USA
  	Leiterin einer Schule für Ausdruckstanz
  Residence	um 1955	315 West 56th Street, New York City, New York, United States (USA)
  Residence	bis Mai 1995	Santa Barbara, California, United States (USA)
  Lebenslauf	Angiola Elise Sartorio wurde am 30.9.1903 in RomalsTochter von Julie Bonn und dem italienischen Maler Giulio Aristide Sartorio geboren. Ihre Großmutter Elise Bonn, geb. Brunner, eine Schwester der „Triester Brüder“ der ersten Generation, hatte in die Frankfurter Bankiersfamilie Bonn eingeheiratet. Ihre Eltern trennten sich 1905 und ihre Mutter zog mit ihr nach England und Schweden. Von dort zog Angiola Sartorio 1918 nach Deutschland, wo sie die Ideen des modernen Tanzes kennenlernte. Sie trat in die Kompanie von Kurt Jooss, einem Schüler des einflussreichen Tanztheoretikers Rudolf von Laban, ein, um schließlich eine steile Karriere als Choreographin und Tänzerin zu beginnen. 1933 erarbeitete sie die Choreographien zu Max Reinhardts italienischer Inszenierung des „Sommernachtstraum“ in Florenz. Reinhardts Einladung, mit ihr in die USA zu gehen, schlug sie aber aus. Sie hatte gerade eine eigene Tanzschule in Florenz eröffnet, in der ab 1933 zahlreiche geflüchtete Tänzerinnen und Tänzer aus Deutschland und Österreich Arbeit fanden. 1939 entschloss sich Angiola Sartorio selbst zur Flucht in die USA, zuerst nach New York, dann nach Bar Harbor in Maine, wo sie eine eigene Tanzschule eröffnete. Später ging sie nach Santa Barbara in Kalifornien, wo sie weiterhin Tanz- und Choreographie unterrichtete. Bis zu ihrem Lebensende blieb sie beruflich aktiv und setzte sich für Minderheiten und Bürgerrechte ein. Sie starb am 26 Mai 1995 in Santa Barbara.
  Biography	Angiola Elise Sartorio was the daughter of a great Italian painter, Giulio Aristide Sartorio (1860–1932), whose frescoes adorn the main hall of the Chamber of Deputies in Rome. Her German-Jewish mother, Julie Bonn, came from a family of bankers and diplomats based in Kronberg im Taunus, near Frankfurt. The Bonns’ stately mansion currently houses the Town Hall. When her parents separated in 1905, Angiola went to England with her mother and in 1914 moved to Sweden. After World War I she went back to Germany and in approximately 1918 had an opportunity to see a performance by the father of European modern dance, the Hungarian Rudolf von Laban (1879–1958). This proved a striking and fateful experience for her. Since her mother strongly opposed her desire to become a dancer (at the time a disreputable career), she left home for a year. She was later able to attend the classes of Laban teacher Sylvia Bodmer (1902–1989) and received her diploma from Laban himself. In 1926 she joined the company of Laban’s pupil Kurt Jooss (1901–1979) as a dancer and soon also worked there as a teacher. She had brio and energy, and a talent for grotesque. She was the protagonist of Jooss’ ballet Pavane for a Dead Princess (1929) and a year later had the role of the Madwoman in the important ballet Illusions, an astounding allegory of dictatorship. In 1930 she left Jooss’s company to go to Paris and train in acrobatics and ballet. She went to Italy to see her father in 1932, just before his death. After staging the dances of Verdi’s Macbeth at the Rome Opera House, Sartorio was invited to Florence as choreographer of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, under the direction of Max Reinhardt (1873–1943), which opened the 1933 May Festival. This was a tremendous experience for her. After she choreographed Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus in 1934, again for Reinhardt, he suggested that she follow him to the United States, but Sartorio refused. She had in fact already opened a dance school, whose financing was provided in part by herself and in part by the Florence Opera House. She created a dance company whose link to the school facilitated a constant interchange between theory, classes and stage, a practice that Laban had introduced. Her pupils came mainly from the middle and upper classes, but Sartorio gave free lessons to whoever could not afford the fees. She taught Eurhythmics, Choreutics and Acrobatics. She was also the only teacher in Italy of improvisation and composition, subjects which develop individual talent and which, as such, were taught in Italy only long after 1945. German Jewish dancers who had fled Germany constituted the majority of her teaching body. Performing a great deal in Florence theaters, Sartorio’s company was very warmly received, especially by the foreign press. She choreographed a number of pieces, including Unending Song (1936), to a Jewish popular song by Joel Engel (Yuli Dimitriyevich, 1868–1927) , which was very successful. However, her work was considered too innovative for Italy, where the National Fascist Party was imposing ballet as a kind of physical exercise very different from the free identity search implied by modern dance. Sartorio was more and more forced to tour abroad in order to survive. In 1936 Max Reinhardt invited her company to Vienna’s Theater in der Josefstadt and her Unending Song was again very well received. As a choreographer Sartorio had a talent for the grotesque. She also liked working on energy variations (in accordance with Laban’s ideas), through which she could shape movements of varying fluidity and hint at the borders between, for instance, human, animal and vegetal life. This was the inspiration for her last solo, Why Should I Fear?, which the ninety-year-old Angiola choreographed in Santa Barbara for Nina Watt in 1993. In 1937 Angiola’s company toured Zurich and Vienna and had to perform in front of Hitler. The promulgation of the Fascist anti-Jewish laws spread panic in the company. Profiting from her Italian name and convinced that her late father’s high reputation could protect her, Angiola had never revealed herself as Jewish. Now she understood that they all had to flee. Early in 1939 she sailed for New York, where her Laban training provided good opportunities to teach. During the summer of 1945 and 1946 she worked at Jacob’s Pillow; from 1947 to 1952 she gave classes at Sullins College, Virginia, and during the summer at Bar Harbor, Maine. Among her pupils were Paul Taylor and Jerome Robbins, who became outstanding choreographers. During the winters she taught dance at Katherine Dunham’s school in New York. She later moved to Santa Barbara, California, where she taught and choreographed up to her final years. She often campaigned for civil rights and the defense of minorities, and developed a great interest in Eastern religions. In her last years she entered the United Lodge of Theosophists. After WWII Angiola Sartorio was a permanent resident of the United States. She died in Santa Barbara, California on May 26, 1995. (Author: Patrizia Veroli) Source: Jewish Women's Archive, https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/sartorio-angiola
  Gestorben	26 Mai 1995	Santa Barbara, California, United States (USA)
  Notizen	Quellen: Original-Datenbank Brunner, JMH; Jewish Women's Archive, https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/sartorio-angiola (14.1.2021) https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/08/obituaries/angiola-sartorio-dancer-91.html (14.1.2021);
  Personen-Kennung	I4900
  Zuletzt bearbeitet am	14 Jan 2021

  
  

  Vater	Giulio Aristide Sartorio,   geb. 11 Feb 1860, Roma (Rom), Lazio (Latium), Italien ,   gest. 3 Okt 1932, Roma (Rom), Lazio (Latium), Italien  (Alter 72 Jahre)
  Mutter	Julie Regine Betty Bonn,   geb. 17 Okt 1877, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Deutschland ,   gest. 26 Sep 1942, Elsfield, Oxfordshire, England, Großbritannien  (Alter 64 Jahre)
  Verheiratet	2 Jan 1902	Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Deutschland
  Geschieden	1905
  Familien-Kennung	F5377	Familienblatt

  
  

• Ereignis-Karte		Geboren - 30 Sep 1903 - Roma (Rom), Lazio (Latium), Italien Emigration - 1905 - England, Großbritannien Emigration - 1914 - Schweden Emigration - 1918 - Deutschland Emigration - 1930 - Paris, Ile-de-France, Frankreich Emigration - 1932 - Italien Emigration - Flucht vor NS-Verfolgung - 1939 - New York City, New York, United States (USA) Residence - bis 1939 - Firenze (Florenz), Toscana (Toskana), Italien Residence - um 1955 - 315 West 56th Street, New York City, New York, United States (USA) Residence - bis Mai 1995 - Santa Barbara, California, United States (USA) Gestorben - 26 Mai 1995 - Santa Barbara, California, United States (USA)  = Link zu Google Maps   = Link zu Google Earth
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