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Adelaide Hall
b. 10-20-1901; Brooklyn
d. 11-7-1993; London
Adelaide Hall, who was taught to sing by her father, worked in black musical shows from the chorus of the Broadway musical Shuffle Along (1921) to Blackbirds of 1928, with the song “I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby”.
Hall lived in Europe where opportunities for black performers were more available, after the Blackbirds tour of Europe, settling in England. She had a radio show and appeared on stage and in films and nightclubs. She made her last recording at age 90 in 1991.
• Underneath a Harlem Moon: The Harlem to Paris Years of Adelaide Hall
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Mata Hari, née
Margaretha Geertruida Zelle
b. 8-7-1876; The Netherlands
d. 10-15-1917; France by firing squad
Mata Hari was the stage name of Margaretha Geertruida “Grietje” Zelle, a Dutch born exotic dancer and courtesan convicted as a German WWI spy by the French.
The Germans thought her ineffectual and it seems now that the French demonized her to distract the public from the battlefield losses. The name “Mata Hari” became synomous with ‘femme fatale’, French for “deadly women”, a woman whose irresistible charms “lead men astray.” Other examples of femme fatales: Eve, Delilah, Salome, Cleopatra.
• Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari
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Geoffrey Holder
b. 8-1-1930; Trinidad and Tobago
Geoffrey Richard Holder is an actor, choreographer, director, dancer, painter, costume designer, singer and voice-over artist, best recognized one of henchmen in the 1973 James Bond, Live and Let Die, as Punjab in the 1982 movie version of the musical Annie, for 7-Up commercials in the 1980s, and for being married to dancer Carmen De Lavallade.
• Carmen and Geoffrey
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Hanya Holm
b. 3-3-1893; Worms, Germany
d. 11-3-1992; NYC
Hanya Holm, one of the four pioneers of modern dance began her career as an assistant to Mary Wigman. After coming to the United States in the 1930s to establish a Wigman school she developed a career performing and eventually choreographing Broadway musicals like My Fair Lady, Camelot, and Kiss Me Kate.
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Louis Horst
b. 1-12-1884; Kansas City, Missouri
d. 1-23-1964; New York City
Louis Horst was a choreographer, composer, and pianist who helped to define the principles of modern dance.
Horst was the associated with the Denishawn company 1916-1925 before collaborating with Martha Graham from 1926-1948.
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Doris Humphrey
b. 10-17-1895; Oak Park, IL
d. 12-29-1958; Virginia
Doris Humphrey, a second generation modern dance pioneer, opened her own dance studio at age 19. Her dances are noted for “the intricacies of large groups, and her emphasis on sculptural shapes.”
Doris Humphrey teamed with Charles Weidman to form a dance company.
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Michio Ito
b. 4-13-1892; Tokyo, Japan
d. 11-6-1961; Tokyo
Dancer, choreographer, and teacher Michio Ito began his music studies with the piano, voice, and Japanese classical drama and dance.
Ito left his native Japan at age 19 for Paris where he saw Isadora Duncan and Vaslav Nijinski perform, then on to study in Germany, and then London. From 1916 to 1928 Ito worked and studied in New York City where Pauline Koner, Ruth St. Denis, Clare Booth Luce, Angna Enters, and Lester Horton were among his students.
In 1929 Ito moved to Los Angeles where he choreographed productions large venues like the Pasadena Rose Bowl and Hollywood Bowl. He also worked in a motion pictures as a dance and scenic directions that included No, No, Nanette and Madame Butterfly.
Ito was associated with poets William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Isamu Noguchi, Louis Horst, Ted Shawn, Martha Graham, Vladimir Rosing and others.
At the outbreak of World War II Ito was interned and eventually deported from the United States to Tokyo.
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