Hanya Holm: When Modern Dance Came to Colorado
Holm’s biographer Walter Sorrell noted that, though she lived in New York City from 1931 until her death in 1992, Holm seemed to prefer her “splendid isolation” in Colorado.
Marshall Brooks, a set designer and photographer who married Carolyn Durand Brooks (one of Holm's early company members) photographed Hanya in some of these more relaxed, personal moments. Brooks' photographs provide a rare glimpse of Holm not just as “the world-renowned modern dance choreographer and educator,” but also as a hiker of mountains, a jokester, and a friend.