Ida Herion

Ida Herion (1876–1959) was a female German dance teacher, who from 1912 ran a dance school in Stuttgart named "Schule für Musik und Körperkultur".

In the 1920s Herion's students were the subject of two books with photographical illustrations. [1]

Herion's dance school has been regarded as providing a distinctively modernist view of nudity and the body:

Herion linked nudism and ecstatic dance not to the recovery of an atavistic, primordial state of freedom but to the achievement of an aristocratic freedom or remoteness from any familiar place, be it wilderness, the bourgeois studio, or the conventional theatre stage. Ecstasy resulted from the elegantly poised beauty of the dancing body, its ability to create its own beautiful world.[2]

References
  1. Paul Isenfels: Getanzte Harmonien. Stuttgart 1927; Max Adolphi, Arno Kettmann: Tanzkunst und Kunsttanz aus der Tanzgruppe Herion Stuttgart. Stuttgart ca. 1928; Judith Breuer: Der Marmorsaal in Stuttgart. In: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg. Nachrichtenblatt des Landesdenkmalamtes 15, 1986, page 142 - 146, especially page 144, 146; Klaus Steinke: Teehaus, Tanz und Berg der Wahrheit. Tübingen 2018, page 145 - 198
  2. Karl Eric Toepfer (1997). Empire of Ecstasy: Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture, 1910-1935. University of California Press. pp. 67–8. ISBN 978-0-520-91827-6.


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