Hanya Holm

Hanya Holm (1893 – 1992) dancer, choreographer and teacher Holm was one of the pioneers of modern dance.

A student of Mary Wigman and instructor at the Wigman School in Dresden Holm founded the New York Wigman School of Dance in 1931 (which became the Hanya Holm Studio in 1936) introducing Wigman technique, Laban's theories of spacial dynamics and later her own dance techniques to American modern dance. An acomplihsed choreographer she was a founding artist of the first American Dance Festival in Bennington (1934). Holm's dance work Metropolitan Daily was the first modern dance composition to be televised on NBC and her labanotation score for Kiss Me, Kate (1948), was the first choreography to be copyrighted in the United States. Holm choreographed extensivly in ther fields of concert dance and musical theatre.