Gisela Taeger

(19**-) Dancer, choreographer, movement lecturer. (Also known as Gisela Taeger-Berger after her marriage to Jochen Berger).

Born in Germany. Received her training at the Folkwang Hochschule for Music, Dance and Drama in Essen, Western Germany under Kurt Jooss and others, including Anne Woolliams, Lucas Hoving, Pearl Lang, Anthony Tudor, Yuriko Kikuschi, Walter Nicks, Jose Udaeta and Boris Kniaseff.

She was brought onto the staff of the Stellenbosch University Drama Department as Lecturer in Movement by Prof Fred Engelen in 1961, went to Germany to further her studies during 1965-67, before returning to the Stellenbosch Drama Department where she taught until 198*.

Formed the Gisela Taeger-Berger Modern Dance Group in 1971. The Group toured around South Africa staging performances of modern dance, choreographed and staged by Taeger. The members of the Dance group were Johann van Heerden, Joleen Lubowski, Leonétte van der Merwe, Roberta Durrant, Esthéa Mellet, Marcel van Heerden, Rika Sennet and Chris van Rensburg.

Sources

Gisela Taeger-Berger Modern Dance Group theatre programme, 1971.

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