Abstract
Gertrud Kraus, Jewish expressionist modern dancer, directed a company and school both in interwar Vienna and in Tel Aviv after she fled the Nazis in 1935. This paper examines her work as both a Diaspora and Israeli dance artist and her influence on the identities of different dancers who in turn affected American audiences, students, and dancers. Some of the Kraus dancers who emigrated to America from Vienna before and during World War II included Jan Veen, Fred Berk, Katya Delakova, and Claudia Vall; from Israel they included Ze'eva Cohen and Zvi Gotheiner, whose latest work, Gertrud premiered in 2007 in New York.
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