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
Dresden
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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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Gertrud Kraus
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Biography
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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
Vienna Central Cemetery
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on April 12, 1973.
References
External links
A 1928 photograph of Ellinor Tordisby Grete Kolliner, at
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1895 births
1976 deaths
Dancers from Vienna
Dance teachers
Modern dancers