Holm, Hanya

Abstract ''The Ballad of Baby Doe'' cast, dramatists, musicians, and directors take a bow after a performance at the Central City Opera House in Central City, Colorado. Front row, left to right: Douglas Moore (composer), Emerson Buckley (music director), Walter Cassel (baritone, portrayed Horace Tabor), Martha Lipton (mezzo-soprano, portrayed Augusta Tabor), Dolores Wilson (soprano, portrayed Elizabeth ''Baby Doe'' Tabor), John Latouche (librettist), Hanya Holm (co-director and choreographer),...

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''The Ballad of Baby Doe'' dramatists and directors (left to right) Edward Levy (co-director), Hanya Holm (co-director and choreographer), Douglas Moore (composer), and John Latouche (librettist) pose for a publicity photograph at the Central City Opera House in Central City, Colorado. The Central City Opera House was the site of the 1956 world premiere of the opera ''The Ballad of Baby Doe.''

Abstract Scrapbook created by Maxine Munt, a dancer and dance educator who studied at the Bennington School of the Dance at Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont. Teachers at Bennington included Charles Weidman, Hanya Holm, Doris Humphrey, and Martha Graham. Munt went on to teach modern dance at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, North Dakota, Adelphi College (later Adelphi University) in Long Island, New York, Ashley Hall in Charleston, South Carolina, and at Colorado College in...

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Vera Sears, Freidann Parker, Hanya Holm and Lillian Covillo stand outside of the Colorado Ballet Center in Denver, Colorado.

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Hanya Holm, wearing a cap and gown after receiving her honorary doctorate from Colorado College, Colorado waves as she exits a building.

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Hanya Holm poses outside with a group of people after receiving her honorary doctorate from Colorado College, Colorado.

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Hanya Holm stands outdoors in a cap and gown after receiving her honorary doctorate from Colorado College, Colorado.

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Vera Sears and Hanya Holm stand outside of the Colorado Ballet Center in Denver, Colorado.

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Dancer, choreographer and dance educator Hanya Holm lectures a group of students outdoors in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Students include: Frances Wessels, Martha Wilcox, Batya Heller, Florita Raup, Louise Metz, Joan Palmer, Vera Sears, and Millie Kaeser.

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Marshall Brooks, photographer and Hanya Holm, modern dancer and choreographer sit together in the Brooks' backyard in Denver, Colorado. Hanya Holm (left) holds a spool of thread and Hanya Holm, while Brooks (right) runs the thread through his hands and looks towards photographer.