16 Facts About Angna Enters

Anita "Angna" Enters was an American dancer, mime, painter, writer, novelist and playwright.

Angna Enters studied at the Art Students League of New York and was a 1934 Guggenheim fellow.

Angna Enters wrote a novel and three autobiographies as well as the films Lost Angel and Tenth Avenue Angel.

Angna Enters saw the first Denishawn concert tour in 1925, and the following year, an American tour of Sergei Diaghilev's Les Ballets Russes.

Angna Enters moved to New York to study at the Art Students League of New York in 1920, and began to study dance with Michio Ito the following year, eventually performing as Michio's partner in 1933.

In 1934, Angna Enters was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study Hellenistic art forms in Athens, Greece.

Angna Enters created a large body of visual art, including sketches, landscape drawings, archaeological studies, costume plates, water colors and oil portraits.

Angna Enters's sketches were often costume designs for characters of her mime performances or set designs for plays.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York holds selected works by Angna Enters, as do other museums.

In 1924, Enters changed her first name to Angna and began using 1907 as her birth year.

Angna Enters wrote a novel, Among the Daughters, and a book on her work, On Mime.

Angna Enters's plays, Love Possessed Juana: A Play of the Inquisition in Spain, co-written with Louis Kalonyme, and The Unknown Lover, were presented by the Houston Little Theater in 1946 and 1947.

Angna Enters is credited with having co-written two Hollywood films, Lost Angel and Tenth Avenue Angel.

Angna Enters' first teaching work came at the Stella Adler Studio, where she taught from 1957 to 1960.

Angna Enters was artist-in-residence at the Dallas Theatre Center in 1961 and 1962, and taught mime at Baylor University during that year.

Angna Enters spent the following school year at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.