Louise Kloepper was an American dancer and dance educator, chair of the dance program at the University of Wisconsin.
12 Facts About Louise Kloepper
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Louise Kloepper trained as a dancer in Seattle and in New York City.
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In 1929, Louise Kloepper traveled to Germany to pursue further dance studies with Margarete Wallmann and Mary Wigman in Berlin and Dresden.
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Louise Kloepper was the first American student to earn a diploma from the Wigman school.
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Louise Kloepper earned a bachelor's degree in dance at Wisconsin in 1946, at age 36.
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Louise Kloepper was a dancer and teacher with the Hanya Holm School and Dance Company in New York, from 1932 to 1942.
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Louise Kloepper taught at Columbia University and New York University during those years, and toured with Holm's company.
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Louise Kloepper taught with Holm and Marian van Tuyl at Mills College in the summers of 1939 and 1940.
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Louise Kloepper joined the faculty of the Department of Physical Education for Women at the University of Wisconsin in 1946.
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Louise Kloepper became chair of the dance division in 1963, and a full professor in 1969.
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Louise Kloepper lived in Madison in her retirement, in a house designed by William Wesley Peters, apprentice and son-in-law to Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Louise Kloepper died in 1996, aged 86, in Madison, Wisconsin.