Greta Wrage von Pustau

Greta Wrage von Pustau (2 August 1902 – 20 March 1989) was a Chinese-born German dancer and dance teacher.

Greta Wrage von Pustau
1957 bust of Wrage von Pustau by Luis Rauschhuber
Born	Greta von Pustau 2 August 1902 Guangzhou, Chinese Empire
Died	20 March 1989
Education	Folkwang University of the Arts
Occupation	dancer, dance teacher
Spouse(s)	Klaus Wrage
Children	3
Parent(s)	Alfred Julius Engelbrecht von Pustau Antonia von Pustau

Biography

Von Pustau was born on 2 August 1902 in Guangzhou. Her parents, Antonia and Alfred Julius Engelbrecht von Pustau, were merchants from Hamburg.

In 1921 she married Klaus Wrage, a landscape painter. They had three children.

Von Pustau studied dance under Rudolf von Laban in the 1920s. In 1932 she graduated from Folkwang University of the Arts and, in 1933, opened her own Laban dance school in Nuremberg. She performed Laban's original choreography in the 1936 Summer Olympics opening ceremony.[1] In 1953 sculptor Luis Rauschhuber created a bust of her.[2]

Her work is archived at the German Dance Archives in Cologne.[3]

References

1. "Interview with Greta Wrage von Pustau - Laban Collection oral archive - Audio material in the Laban Collection - Laban Collection". Archives Hub. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
2. "Rauschhuber: Plastiken". luis-rauschhuber.de. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
3. "Greta Wrage von Pustau - Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln". deutsches-tanzarchiv.de. Retrieved 2019-05-31.