23 Facts About Hilde Holger

Hilde Holger was born in 1905, the daughter of Alfred and Elise Sofer Schreiber.

Hilde Holger's father wrote poetry, and had died by 1908.

Hilde Holger's second child, a son named Darius Boman-Behram, was born in 1949.

Hilde Holger had Down syndrome, which inspired Holger to work with physically disabled people.

Hilde Holger soon rose to be Bodenwieser's principal dancer and friend, and toured with Bodenwieser's company all over Western and Eastern Europe.

Hilde Holger toured with her own Hilde Holger Dance Group as well.

Hilde Holger received help to flee Austria from her friend Charles Petrach.

Hilde Holger decided to go to India because that country's art was the most compelling to Western people, she said at that time.

In 1941, Hilde Holger founded a new school of dance in Bombay, she took students of all race, religion and nationality without prejudice.

Hilde Holger again opened a new dance school, The Hilde Holger School of Contemporary Dance and remained faithful to their style of teaching that the body and mind must form one unit in order to be a good dancer.

Hilde Holger was particularly proud of her work with the mentally handicapped.

Hilde Holger created a form of dance therapy for children who, like her son Darius, have Down syndrome.

Hilde Holger was the first choreographer who mixed professional dancers with young adults with severe learning disabilities.

In 1968 at the Sadler's Wells, Hilde Holger orchestrated "Towards the Light", with music by Edvard Grieg.

In 1992, Hilde Holger revived four dances from her early repertoire for her student Liz Aggiss, who first performed them, as Vier Tanze, at the Manchester Festival of Expressionism.

Hilde Holger left a lasting impression on three generations of dancers and choreographers.

Hilde Holger accepted students without prejudice, including students with disabilities, as long as they were sincere.

Stange's Amici Dance Theatre Company which was the first physically integrated dance company in Great Britain, which created a performance titled "Hilde Holger" that was performed at the Riverside Theatre in London in 1996, and at the Odeon in Vienna in 1998.

Hilde Holger's students included Liz Aggiss, Jane Asher, Primavera Boman, Carol Brown, Carl Campbell, Sophie Constanti, Jeff Henry, Ivan Illich, Luke Jennings, Thomas Kampe, Claudia Kappenberg, Cecilia Keen Abdeen, Lindsay Kemp, Anneliese Monika Koch, Royston Maldoom OBE, Juliet Miangay-Cooper, Anna Niman, David Niman, Litz Pisk, Kristina Rihanoff, Kelvin Rotardier, Feroza Seervai, Rebecca Skelton, Marion Stein, Sheila Styles, Jacqueline Waltz and Vally Wieselthier.

Hilde Holger started to collate an archive, with the help of a local Baptist diocese's parish church secretary and NHS Hospitals' repairs auditor, a Ms.

Each former student led an inclusive dance workshop to celebrate their own unique style of dance therapy, which Hilde Holger helped foster in them.

At the age of twenty-nine in 1934, Hilde Holger was mentioned in the prestigious Art in Austria almanac Kunst in Osterreich: Osterreichischer Almanach und Kunstleradressbuch which listed all the established names in the Austrian arts scene of that year.

Hilde Holger was a frequent model and close personal friend of Trcka.