A Western-Eastern cultural history of dance: Museum Folkwang presents its expansive Global Groove exhibition, opening on 13 August 2021

The exhibition Global Groove. Art, Dance, Performance and Protest running from 13 August to 14 November 2021 at Museum Folkwang explores dance as a  bodily form of communication. The show looks back on over 120 years of art and dance history and highlights how dance stimulated cultural and political developments in societies. From contemporary collaborations or the first Happenings by the Japanese

Butoh dancers and the pioneers of Modern Dance, we trace a line in the cultural history of contact between the West and East back to the early performances of Asian dancers in Europe around 1900.