Elsa Darciel
Elsa Darciel (of its true name Elza Dewette ) is a Danseuse, Chorégraphe and Belgian pedagog born close to Ghent the April 12th 1904 and dead the February 8th 1998.
Grand-daughter of the Belgian type-setter Edouard Blaes, Elsa Darciel follows the courses of piano Miss To bore, raises Brahms. After studies in Kensington Highschool of London, where she discovers the Russian Ballets of Serge de Diaghilev and the theories of Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, she meets Isadora Duncan and Kurt Jooss which initiates it with “” Rudolf Laban.
In 1930, it opens a school of dance to Brussels, in which it combines the teaching principles acquired during its formation. For its pupils, it creates a series of Ballet S expressionnists, placed under the sign of the eurythmy, often inspired by the topics and legends of Flanders, such as Tijl Uilenspiegel and Halewijn . As of 1933, it teaches in several Flemish institutions like with the royal Conservatoire of Brussels and with the Academy of music of Malines.
Flemish convinced and militant, it gives an opinion in favor of the flamandisation of the Université of Ghent and publishes, in 1941, a booklet entitled Naar een vlaamsche danskunst ( Towards a Flemish art of the dance ).
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