The Green Table is a ballet by the German choreographer Kurt Jooss, his most popular work, depicting the futility of peace negotiations of the 1930s. It was the first work to be fully notated using kinetography Laban, known as Labanotation, and remains in the repertoire of ballet companies worldwide, staged by Jooss himself during his lifetime and by his daughter Anna Markard after his death in 1979.
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Year Created MediumBallet (a dance of death in eight scenes) 1 LocationParis, France (premiere) 1 Medium
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The Green Table was created in 1932
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The Green Table is a ballet by the German choreographer Kurt Jooss.
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in Paris, in which Jooss had been invited to participate.
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The Green Table is a ballet by the German choreographer Kurt Jooss. His most popular work, it depicts the futility of peace negotiations of the 1930s.
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The Green Table is a ballet by the German choreographer Kurt Jooss. His most popular work, it depicts the futility of peace negotiations of the 1930s. It was the first work to be fully notated using kinetography Laban (Labanotatio
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