Ellinor Tordis, pseudonym of Ellinor Wachsmuth (1895–1973) was an Austrian dancer and dance educator in Vienna in the 1920s.

Early life

Tordis was born in 1895 in

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Career

Tordis danced as a member of the Münchener Tanz-Drei, and ran a school in Vienna, focused on movement ideas from modern dance and gymnastics. Among her students were dancers

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and Hans Wiener (Jan Veen), and actress

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. Her accompanist for a time was pianist and dancer

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, and Anne Winter headed the gymnastics department. Tordis was a proponent of coordinated mass gymnastics, or ''Bewegungschöre'', as positive expressions of social unity and public health. She and her group performed at the Festival of Music and Theatre in Vienna in 1924.

Personal life

Tordis died on April 3, 1973, in Vienna. She was buried at the

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on April 12, 1973.

References

External links

A 1928 photograph of Ellinor Tordis
by Grete Kolliner, at

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