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- Birth nameJohanna Eckert
- Hanya Holm was born on March 3, 1893 in Worms, Grand Duchy of Hesse [now Rhineland-Palatinate], Germany. She is known for The Vagabond King (1956), The Golden Fleece (1941) and Pinocchio (1957). She died on November 3, 1992 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Mother of Set and Lighting designer Klaus Holm.
- Tony winner for her Choreography for "The Golden Apple".
- Choreographed the original Broadway productions of "Kiss Me Kate", "Out Of This World", "My Fair Lady", and "Camelot".
- Mary invited Holm to teach, co-direct the Dresden School, and in her recognition of the opportunity that opening a school in New York could offer the world of dance, eventually sent Holm to launch a Wigman branch in New York City (on September 26, 1931). The initial letters of certification and agreement from Wigman to Holm about the migration over to America to direct the school were found in her house after her death in 1992. These letters were published in Dance, Business, and Politics: Letters from Mary Wigman to Hanya Holm. In the letters the salary was laid out making sure that the transfer would continue to support her son, Klaus, who stayed in Germany, and the letter of agreement signed by both parties "promises to apply all her strength to the advancement of the New York Wigman School and to conduct the work according to Mary Wigman's ideas ... as well as to see that the M.W. philosophy of dance is implemented faithfully within and outside the New York Wigman School in every possible way".
- She also directed a 1960s television musical adaptation of Pinocchio.
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