Katharine Wolfe papers 1912-1972 1928-1964

Wigman, Mary, 1886-1973

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Mary Wigman, German modern dancer and choreographer, was born Mary Wiegmann, November 13, 1886 in Hanover. She trained first with Emile Jaques-Dalcroze in Hellerau and Dresden and later with Rudolf von Laban in Anscona, Switzerland and in Munich. Her debut as a concert dancer and choreographer occurred in 1919. Successful performances encouraged her to open her own school in Dresden, where among her first students were Yvonne Georgi, Gert Palucca, and Harald Kreutzberg. By 1925, her students inc...

Deja, Lore

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King, Eleanor, 1906-1991

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Eleanor King was born in Middletown, Pennsylvania in 1906. After studying locally with Clair Tree Major, she moved to New York to work with Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman at their studio. She also received training in mime with Etienne Decroux, and in Oriental dance forms of Japan, Sri Lanka, and Bali. King created roles in many of the early work of Humphrey and Weidman. Her performances for Weidman were in the premieres of The Conspirator (1930) and The Happy Hypocr...

Cornish School of Allied Arts (Seattle, Wash.)

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Founded in 1914 by Nellie C. Cornish as the Cornish School of Music, the Cornish School of Allied Arts quickly became established as the first school in the western United States to offer comprehensive training in all of the arts. Nellie Cornish sought to educate artists through exposure to all art forms and within the first few years of the school's existence she had expanded the curriculum to offer courses in dance, visual arts, theater and design. She recruited a wide...

Seattle Public Schools

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Wolfe, Katharine

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Katharine A. Wolfe (1904-1990) was a dance teacher and an administrator for Seattle Public Schools, who spent over ten years preparing a comprehensive study of twentieth century American concert dance, which never found a publisher. She became a dance teacher with Seattle Public Schools in 1926 and remained a teacher through 1944, later becoming becoming a consultant in health and physical education, responsible for developing the physical education curriculum. While wor...

Palucca, Gret, 1902-1993

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