Trudi Schoop
Trudi Schoop, also Trudy Schoop ( born October 9, 1903 in Zurich, † July 14, 1999 in Van Nuys, California ) was a Swiss dancer, dance therapist and comedienne.
Life
Originally from a wealthy family of Zurich Trudy Schoop taught himself as self-taught dancing in largely self. At the age of 17 she joined the Peacock Theatre her hometown for the first time on in a solo performance. Only later she also took professional dance and ballet lessons. In 1921 she founded her first dance school.
In subsequent years, she led tours on which she was also accompanied by her sister Hedy Schoop and the dancer Suzanne Perrottet by numerous European cities such as Berlin, Oslo, Amsterdam, Prague, Stockholm and Paris. Due to its strong physical comedy the expressionist dancer Schoop was often hailed as a female Charlie Chaplin. In 1932 she took second place with their dance comedy Fridolin go at the prestigious Paris Grand Concours International de choreography.
She also worked several times as a choreographer and dancer in the film.
When the Second World War they broke up their dance group. They joined in the effort between 1941 and 1945 in the anti-fascist Zurich Cabaret Cornichon. After the war it was renamed for a short time their new dance group and went on tour again - this time by the United States of America. In 1948 she released the dance group at final and finished at the same time her stage career.
A few years later she moved to California. There she devoted herself to the task of affect mentally disturbed people positively through dance. This effect of dance on psychosis she had experienced myself many times in her youth. As a therapist, she developed the dance therapy for chronic psychotic people decide on and applies in addition to Franziska Boas, Marina Chace and Liljan Espenak and Mary Whitehouse as one of the " mothers of dance therapy ."
First, even without psychological or clinical training worked Trudy Schoop later also works closely with medical institutions such as the Camarillo State Mental Hospital and the Association of UCLA. With its body- ego technique she tried to old age people to get out of their isolation and to help them to accept themselves and establish contact with other people.
A few years ago Trudy Schoop turned filmmaker Claudia Willke two documentaries with and about the dance therapist: The portrait Conquest of the Void ( 1992) and Come dance with me (1991 ) showing Trudy Schoop when working with patients of psychiatry Munsterlingen.