Ruth Abramovitsch Sorel

Alice Ruth Elly Abramovich, artist name, Ruth Sorel ( born June 18, 1907 in Halle ( Saale), † 1 April 1974 in Warsaw) was a German dancer, choreographer and representative of modern dance.

Life

The father Aron Abramowitz (1876-1944) was a merchant in the hall and was later occupant of the ghetto Theresienstadt and victims of the Holocaust. The mother was non- Jewish. Ruth Abramovich made ​​a dance training with Mary Wigman and 1926 was a cast member of the opera in Essen. From there she went in 1927 as a prima ballerina at the Städtische Oper Berlin. So she danced in the season 1931/32 at the Berlin Volksbühne in choreographies by Lizzie Maudrik and Margherita Wallmann. With Georg Groke (1904-1999) it was the couple Groke Abramovich.

Ruth and her siblings were set politically left and Communist Party members. After the handover of power to the National Socialists in Germany they did not come from a 1933 appearance in Poland back. You could work there and went with her partner Groke also on tour to Palestine and the United States. In 1940 she had with her husband, fleeing the Polish writer Michal Choromariski over Italy, France and England to Brazil. Between 1943 and 1957 she was able to work in Canada under the pen name of Ruth Sorel. In Montreal, they founded the company Les Ballets Ruth Sorel (also under the name Ruth Sorel Modern Dance Group) and was in 1948 one of the founders of the Canadian Ballet Festival. With composer Pierre Brabant ( b. 1925 ), she created in 1949 in Montreal, the ballet La Gaspésienne, which in 1950 was also shown in New York and Warsaw.

Mid-1950s, she returned with her ​​husband, the exile had ended up the literary language, back to Poland.

The father Aaron Abramovich is dedicated in Hall a stumbling block. A relative is the Berlin-based photographer Markus Hawlik - Abramowitz.