HANNOVER.- “No dance without ecstasy!” proclaimed the famous dancer, choreographer and dancing instructor Mary Wigman (1886-1973). Born in Hanover, this icon of German Ausdruckstanz (expressive dance) counts among the pioneers of the life reform movement in Germany in the first third of the 20th century. During her career as a dancer she broke the rigid corset of obsolete convention, encouraged her students to express themselves freely as individuals and propagated the human body’s natural diversity of movement as the basis of free expression in modern dance. The Sprengel Museum Hannover is now devoting an exhibition to representations of dance in the art of modernism. Comprising more than a hundred works from the period between the turn of the century and the 1930s, the exhibition will at the same time afford visitors an insight into the revolutionary developments that took place in the dialogue betwee