Title Liebe Hanya : Mary Wigman's letters to Hanya Holm / compiled by edited by Claudia Gitelman ; with an introduction by Hedwig Müller ; letters translated by Marianne Forster and Catherine T. Klingler ; additional translation by Shelley Frisch and Joanna Ratych

Published Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press ; London : Eurospan, 2003

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Description xxvii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm regular print Series Studies in dance history Studies in dance history (Unnumbered) Contents Machine derived contents note: <table of contents, p. v> -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations 000 -- Preface 000 -- Editorial Note 000 -- Introduction: A Matter of Loyalty--Hanya Holm and Mary Wigman -- by Hedwig Müller 000 -- Mary Wigman's Letters to Hanya Holm 000 -- 1920-1930: Overture 000 -- 1930-1931: Preparing for New York 000 -- 1932: In the United States 000 -- 1932-1935: Careers in Crisis 000 -- 1937-1941: Careers in Crisis 000 -- 1946-1949: Leipzig 000 -- 1949-1956: Berlin 000 -- 1956-1964: Berlin 000 -- 1965-1971: Years of Decline 000 -- Appendix One: Summaries of Hanns Benkert's letters to Hanya Holm 000 -- Appendix Two: Letters to Louise Kloepper from Mary Wigman and Hanya Holm 000 -- Appendix Three: Letters from Mary Wigman to Pola Nirenska 000 -- Source list 000 -- Contributors to the volume 000 -- Index 000 Summary "Mary Wigman's groundbreaking choreography and inspired performances in Germany during the 1910s and 1920s placed modern dance on an equal footing with modern painting, theater, and film. Her disciple Hanya Holm took Wigman's aesthetic philosophy to the United States in 1931, effectively adapting it to the American temperament through her teaching and concert works and as a choreographer of Broadway musicals such as Kiss Me, Kate and My Fair Lady. Written between 1920 and 1971, Wigman's letters to Holm bring to life an unusually durable and productive friendship that began as teacher and student then survived a love triangle, business partnership, and long separation by war and politics. A memorable personal account of a century in turmoil, these missives inject immediacy into discussions of Wigman's work within the Third Reich and cast light on Holm's construction of an American identity. Never before published in any language, these letters, introduced by Hedwig Muller and annotated by Claudia Gitelman, are an untapped resource for historians of twentieth-century culture as well as dance."--Jacket Notes Formerly CIP. Uk Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Wigman, Mary, 1886-1973 -- Correspondence. Holm, Hanya, 1893-1992 -- Correspondence. Choreography. Dancers -- Germany -- Biography. Dancers -- United States -- Biography. Dancers -- Germany -- Correspondence. Dancers -- United States -- Correspondence. Genre/Form Biography. Records and correspondence. Lettres (Descripteur de forme). Biographie (Descripteur de forme). Personal correspondence. Biographies. Author Gitelman, Claudia. LC no. 2003005657 ISBN 0299190749 paperback

Other Titles Mary Wigman's letters to Hanya Holm

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