DANCER

Kurt Jooss

1901 - 1979

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Kurt Jooss (12 January 1901 – 22 May 1979) was a famous German ballet dancer and choreographer mixing classical ballet with theatre; he is also widely regarded as the founder of Tanztheater. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kurt Jooss has received more than 87,327 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Kurt Jooss is the 52nd most popular dancer (down from 50th in 2019), the 3,294th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,091st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Dancer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 87k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DANCERS

Among dancers, Kurt Jooss ranks 52 out of 116. Before him are Lindsay Kemp, Maria Tallchief, Frederick Ashton, Louise Rasmussen, Antonio Gades, and Enrico Cecchetti. After him are Merce Cunningham, Hilde Holger, Carla Fracci, William Forsythe, Lucile Grahn, and Alvin Ailey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Kurt Jooss ranks 154. Before him are Frank Zamboni, Fernando Tambroni, Sergei Tumansky, Otto Ambros, Daniel-Rops, and Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei. After him are Elias Katz, Julio Libonatti, Werner Egk, Vilma Bánky, Dmitry Lelyushenko, and Henri Tomasi. Among people deceased in 1979, Kurt Jooss ranks 121. Before him are Ján Kadár, Vsevolod Bobrov, José Della Torre, Arno Schmidt, Johan Borgen, and Ludwig Renn. After him are Ivar Johansson, Issa Pliyev, John Cromwell, Catherine Hessling, Antonio Caggiano, and Aleksei Kapler.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Kurt Jooss ranks 3,294 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1891), Carl Schurz (1829), Paul Kummer (1834), Ludwig Renn (1889), Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt (1669), and Arno Peters (1916). After him are Karl Groos (1861), Edgar Hilsenrath (1926), Yaakov Litzman (1948), Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1672), George Frederick, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1573), and Anacharsis Cloots (1755).

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Among DANCERS In Germany

Among dancers born in Germany, Kurt Jooss ranks 3. Before him are Pina Bausch (1940), and Mary Wigman (1886).

German born Dancers

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