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“Keep the beat, but undermine it.”
“Use the feet as if you would pick up a flower with your toes.”
These are the kinds of unique instructions Hanya Holm would give her dance students. Hanya Holm, born Johanna Eckert in Worms am Rhein, Germany, was a German-American dancer, educator, and choreograph