Liebe Hanya: Mary Wigman's Letters to Hanya Holm

These vividly written letters document the lives of two remarkable women artists who were at the center of twentieth-century dance modernism. Mary Wigman’s groundbreaking choreography and inspired performing in Germany during the 1910s and 1920s brought the emerging art of modern dance into dialogue 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, and ultimat...