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Word: hanya (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...procession. When famed German Modernist Dancer Mary Wigman visited the U. S. in 1930-31, the U. S. home-grown modernist dance had already taken root. But Wigman's U. S. tours added a trail of disciples to "the modernist ranks. Chief among these was blonde, muscular Hanya Holm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Assemble | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...caressed a purple cube before a background of dismembered limbs and torsos. For a moment things looked better for the tired businessman when symbol-minded, mop-headed Tamiris shook substantial thighs beneath a raspberry-sundae skirt. But this performance was actually a satire on the evils of decadent capitalism. Hanya Holm, disciple of Mary Wigman. led massive cohorts of healthy-looking Backfisch through what resembled a Swedish drill, called the result Trend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Modern Dancers | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...Abraham Walkowitz; photographs by top-flight Austrian, Swedish, French and U. S. photographers. The handsomely printed program announced for Dec. 12 an "Evening of Ballet" to include the three foremost U. S. companies, for Jan. 2 an "Evening of Modern Dance" contributed by Ruth St. Denis, Martha Graham, Hanya Holm, Doris Humphrey, Tamiris and Charles Weidman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art of the Dance | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

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