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Dore Hoyer

German expressionist dancer (1911-1967)

Born 1911 · DresdenDied 1967Germany
Dore Hoyer
Image: Lenka von Koerber (1888-1958), Rechteinhaber: Giv von Koerber, Cologne, Germany · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Dore Hoyer was a German choreographer, dancer and ballet master, born in 1911 in Dresden, who died in 1967.

Biography

Dore Hoyer (12 December 1911 – 31 December 1967) was a German expressionist dancer and choreographer. She is credited as "one of the most important solo dancers of the Ausdruckstanz tradition." Inspired by Mary Wigman, she developed her own solo programmes and toured widely before and after the Second World War. Wigman called Hoyer "Europe's last great modern dancer."

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Contemporaries

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