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Dancer and pedagogue Gret Palucca (1902-93) opened a small dance school in Dresden-- the Palucca School Dresden (1925). She would teach there until 1990 except during World War II when the NAZIs closed the school because she was Jewish (1939-45). Palucca began teaching in her apartment on the Bürgerwiese. She then rented training rooms for her school in Dresden. Her fame as a dancer brought public acclaim. She was able to open branch studios in Berlin (1928) and in Stuttgart (1931). While the NAZIs abhorred modern art and music, they were more tolerant of modern dance. We are not entirely sure why. We think it had to do with the NAZI interest in the body beautiful and physical health and strength -- for the girls to make babies and the boys to make war. German modern dance was a rare NAZi asset in the international artistic world. Palucca was total uninterested in politics. So while other Jews and artistically oriented people fled NAZI Germany she remained in Germany. Only dance mattered to her. She managed to survived both the Holocasust and the fire bombing of Dresden. Immediately after the War she reopened reopened her school. As she was untarnished by the NAZIs. She became a figure in the East Germany artistic community. The Palucca School in Dresden became a public state school (1949). The Communist regime even built a brand new building for Plucca and her school--seeing it as a cultural treasure. An apprentice program was introduced with the Dresden Semperoper Ballet (2006). The school was renamed (2010).
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