• Hanya Holm (born Johanna Eckert; 3 March 1893 – 3 November 1992) is known as one of the "Big Four" founders of American modern dance. She was a dancer...
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    dramatizing the economic, social, ethnic and political crises of their time. Hanya Holm - A student of Mary Wigman and an instructor at the Wigman School in Dresden...
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  • of 1,077 performances. Directed by John C. Wilson with choreography by Hanya Holm, the original cast included Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, Lisa Kirk...
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  • after 2,717 performances, a record at the time. Moss Hart directed and Hanya Holm was choreographer. In addition to stars Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews and...
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    from 1934 until the mid-1980s. Famous students included Gret Palucca, Hanya Holm, Yvonne Georgi, Margherita Wallmann, Lotte Goslar, Birgit Åkesson, Sonia...
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  • and Hanya Holm. Born and raised in Kentucky, Anthony studied theater at Grinnell College in Iowa before pursuing studies in dance at the Hanya Holm School...
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    Palucca, Harald Kreutzberg, Jeanna Falk, Dore Hoyer and Yvonne Georgi. Hanya Holm brought her theories to the United States, while Birgit Åkesson went her...
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  • where she studied and worked with renowned dancers and choreographers Hanya Holm and Martha Graham. Dow earned a B.A. and M.A. in theatre from Cornell...
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    the Brooklyn Academy of Music in April 1939, in a program shared with Hanya Holm. A contemporaneous piece, How Long Brethren? (1937), was danced to protest...
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    effectively measure and record this information at the time. In 1948, Hanya Holm became the first Broadway choreographer to have her dance scores copyrighted...
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