Dance Magazine, August 1st, 2004
Liebe Hanya: Mary Wigman's letters to Hanya Holm Compiled and edited by Claudia Gitelman. Introduction by Hedwig Muller. Translated by Marianne Forster and Catherine T. Klingler. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. 200 pages, paper, illus. $29.95.
Liebe Hanya ("Dear Hanya") chronicles the relationship between the radical German dance pioneer Mary Wigman (1886-1973) and her disciple Hanya Holm (1893-1992) over a fifty-year period. The two women wine mentor and protegee, colleagues, and, at one time, romantic rivals. They were essential to each other's existence artistically, emotiona...
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