Kate Gies's wonderful (and devastating) memoir, It Must Be Beautiful To Be Finished shows that the mainstream medical profession has a lot to answer for when it comes to deciding which bodies are "attractive," which ones need "fixing," and how all that should take
24 Apr 2025
The work, life and legacy of Weimar movement teacher Elsa Gindler (1885-1961) will form the uniting thread for our conversations in Spring 2025. To head up this section, I deliberately chose a grainy picture of Gindler, reproduced many times and appearing as part of someone else's story.
26 Mar 2025
In 2024 and early 2025 we worked our way through a silent film from 1925: Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit created at the famous Ufa studios in Berlin. This documentary gives a cross-section of German physical culture in the mid-twenties – from outdoor living, to dance, to sport to
24 Mar 2025