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...first time in U.S. dance history, just about all of the big brains and muscles in modern dance-José Limón, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Hanya Holm-were flexing together in one theater to do it. And all their fervid followers seemed to be on hand to give them palm-pounding support...
Leggy, almond-eyed Valerie Bettis, 28, discovered as a gaminish youngster that "when I was dancing, I knew who I was." She studied in Manhattan with Hanya Holm, and in 1941 gave a debut recital. Her The Desperate Heart won big notices in 1943. But it was not until Valerie stopped the show in Bea Lillie's Inside U.S.A. last year with her tawny "Tiger Lily" dance that anyone but modern dance devotees was very sure...
...Hanya Holm's dances are smart, brisk, Broadwayish-no Art whatever and a vast amount of skill; and Dancer Harold Lang and Singer Lisa Kirk take care of the subplot in style. In the leading roles, Hollywood's Patricia Morison proves to be right at home on Broadway, and Alfred Drake stands forth as the best all-round musicomedy hero in show business...
...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...
...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...