Description |
xxvii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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regular print |
Series |
Studies in dance history |
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Studies in dance history (Unnumbered)
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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.
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Holm, Hanya, 1893-1992 -- Correspondence.
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Choreography.
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Dancers -- Germany -- Biography.
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Dancers -- United States -- Biography.
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Dancers -- Germany -- Correspondence.
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Dancers -- United States -- Correspondence.
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Genre/Form |
Biography.
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Records and correspondence.
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Lettres (Descripteur de forme).
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Biographie (Descripteur de forme).
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Personal correspondence.
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Biographies.
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Author |
Gitelman, Claudia.
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LC no. |
2003005657 |
ISBN |
0299190749 paperback |
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