Hilde Holger

Hilde Boman-Behram (née Hilde Sofer, stage name Hilde Holger; 18 October 1905 – 24 September 2001) was an expressionist dancer, choreographer and dance teacher whose pioneering work in integrated dance transformed modern dance.[1][2]

Hilde Holger
Holger in 1925
Born	Hilde Sofer (1905-10-18)18 October 1905 Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died	22 September 2001(2001-09-22) (aged 95) Camden, London
Nationality	British, Austrian
Known for	Dance, choreography and teaching
Movement	Expressionism and Integrated dance
Spouse(s)	Adershir Kavershir Boman-Behram (1940–1975, 1989–2000)
Website	Official website

Holger in 1926

Holger in 1926

Holger in 1926

Holger in 1925

Family

Holger came from a liberal Jewish family. She was born in 1905, the daughter of Alfred and Elise Sofer Schreiber.[3] Her father wrote poetry, and had died by 1908. Her grandfather made shoes for the Austrian court.

After Nazi Germany invaded Austria, Holger fled Vienna in 1939, because her entry into England was denied, she went to India.[4] In Mumbai she met the Parsi homeopath and art loving Dr. Ardershir Kavasji Boman-Behram, they married in 1940.[5] Her mother, step-father and fourteen other relatives all perished in the Holocaust.

Hilde Holger had two children. The first was born 1946 in India, her daughter Primavera Boman-Behram. In New York she became a dancer, sculptor and jewelry designer. In 1948 Holger's family emigrated to Britain.[5] Her second child, a son named Darius Boman-Behram, was born in 1949. He had Down syndrome, but inspired Holger to work with physically disabled people.

Work

Hilde Holger started to dance at age six. At that time she was too young to join the Vienna State Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, so she settled for ballroom dancing lessons taken with her sister (Hedi Sofer), until she was accepted to study with radical dancer Gertrud Bodenwieser,[6] then a professor at the Vienna State Academy. They were admirers of the work of Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis, as well as the artists of the Secession. Holger soon rose to be Bodenwieser's principal dancer and friend, and toured with Bodenwieser's company all over Western and Eastern Europe. She toured with her own Hilde Holger Dance Group as well. At age eighteen she had her first solo performance in the Viennese Secession. Later in the Viennese Hagenbund and theaters in Vienna, Paris and Berlin, her much-lauded expressionist dance caused quite a stir. Because of her passion for dance, in 1926 she formed the New School for Movement Arts in Palais Ratibor, right in the heart of Vienna. Her children's performances were danced in parks and in front of monuments there.

On 12 March 1938 Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany sent troops into Austria, and adopted a law to unify the country with Austria, at that time it was forbidden for Jews to perform. She received help to flee Austria from her friend Charles Petrach. She decided to go to India because that country's art was the most compelling to Western people, she said at that time.

In India she had the opportunity to incorporate new experiences into her work, especially the hand movements of Indian dance. Classical Indian dance has over three hundred of them, used to express life and nature. In 1941 Holger founded a new school of dance in Bombay, she took students of all race, religion and nationality without prejudice. Like when she was in Vienna, Holger again took part in the artistic community. Amongst her friends with whom she collaborated with were the Indian dancers Rukmini Devi Arundale, Ram Gopal,[2] Madame Menaka and Uday Shankar.[7] Gopal also danced in Holger's school in Bombay. In 1948 because of the partition of India and the growing violence between Muslims and Hindus she emigrated again, this time to Britain.

Once in England, her Holger Modern Ballet Group performed in parks, churches and theaters. She 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. Her breakthrough in London, 1951, celebrated Holger with the premiere of "Under the Sea", inspired by the composition by Camille Saint-Saens.

In 1972 she performed a piece titled "Man against flood", it was based on the book of the same name written by Chinese Communist Party member Rewi Alley. It was performed at the Commonwealth Institute with music by Chinese composer Yin Chengzong, and included dancers forming a human wall against a flood of water.[8]

Her performance "Apsaras" (1983) explored her experiences in India. In the summer of 1983 she went back to India, where she had been last in the year 1948. There she worked as a choreographer for a large dance group directed by Sachin Shankar.

Holger was particularly proud of her work with the mentally handicapped. She created a form of dance therapy for children who, like her son Darius, have Down syndrome. Holger was the first choreographer who mixed professional dancers with young adults with severe learning disabilities. In 1968 at the Sadler's Wells, Holger orchestrated "Towards the Light", with music by Edvard Grieg. It was pioneering, innovative, and one of the first integrated dance pieces to be seen on a professional stage.[9]

In 1992, 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.[10]. The pieces were Die Forelle (1923), Le Martyre de San Sebastien (1923), Mechaniches Ballett (1926) and Golem (1937). In the Guardian review, Sophie Constanti wrote that 'Hilde Holger's choreography reaches the British stage at last and triumphs....Together all four pieces danced with great sensitivity and aplomb by Aggiss accompanied by (Billy) Cowie on piano provided a fascinating insight into the lost Ausdruckstanz of central Europe.'[11]

Legacy

Hilde Holger left a lasting impression on three generations of dancers and choreographers. While teaching her standards were high and she was not afraid of risk.[2] She accepted students without prejudice, including students with disabilities, as long as they were sincere. One of her students, Wolfgang Stange, continued her work with people with learning difficulties, like Down syndrome and autism, as well as people with physical disabilities. Stange's Amici Dance Theatre Company which was the first physically integrated dance company in Great Britain, which created a performance titled "Hilde" that was performed at the Riverside Theatre in London in 1996, and at the Odeon in Vienna in 1998. This HILDE Performance in Vienna excited the Ballet Master of the Vienna State Opera Ballet, who in turn put a performance on the stage of the Opera House with people with learning disabilities. These performances were received with great applause!

In her last few weeks Holger still held dance lessons in her basement studio in Camden, London, where she lived for more than fifty years. Her 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,[12][13], 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.

Archive

After Holger’s death in 2001 her daughter Primavera began a journey of discovering the truth about her mother’s life as a famous dancer. She started to collate an archive to document her mother’s life and career out of the remaining physical legacy. [14] The archive is not on permanent display, although there have been numerous shows that included many of Holger’s artifacts.

MoveABOUT

In 2010 six of Holger’s students, Boman, Campbell, Kampe, Maldoom, Stange & Waltz, reunited together to put on a series of talks and dance workshops at The InterChange Studios in Hampstead Town Hall Centre in north London to commemorate Holger’s pioneering work in Inclusive Dance, entitled MoveABOUT: Transformation through movement. Each former student led an inclusive dance workshop to celebrate their own unique style of dance therapy, which Holger helped foster in them. These workshops introduced her work to yet another generation of dancers and interested individuals to her pioneering methods and beliefs in the power of dance, which in her own life crossed many boundaries, cultures, and religions. [15][16][17][18]

Choreography

Year	Performance	Music	Venue	Notes
1923	Bouree	Johann Sebastian Bach	Vienna Secession
1923	Eine Seifenblase	Claude Debussy	Vienna Secession
1923	Forelle	Franz Schubert	Vienna Secession
1923	Humoreske	Max Reger	Vienna Secession
1923	Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien	Claude Debussy	Vienna Secession
1923	Reiter im Sturm	Siegfried Frederick Nadel	Vienna Secession
1923	Sarabande	Johann Sebastian Bach	Vienna Secession
1923	Trout
1923	Vogel als Prophet	Franz Schubert	Vienna Secession
1926	Funeral March for a Canary	Lord Berners
1926	Mechanical Ballet
1929	Chaconne & Variations	George Frideric Handel
1929	Englischer Schafertanz	Percy Aldridge Grainger
1929	Hebraischer Tanz solo	Alexander Veprik
1929	Lebenswende	Karel Boleslav Jirák
1929	Marsch	Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev
1929	The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastien	Claude-Achille Debussy
1929	Mutter Erde	Heinz Graupner
1929	Sarabande und Bourree	Johann Sebastian Bach
1929	Tanz nach Rumaischene Motive	Béla Viktor János Bartók
1931	Javanische Impression	Heinz Graupner
1933	Kabbalistischer Tanz	Vittorio Rieti
1936	Ahasver	Marcel Rubin	Volkshochschule, Vienna
1936	Barbarasong	Weill	Volkshochschule, Vienna
1936	Engel der Verkündigung	Händel	Volkshochschule, Vienna
1937	Flämischer Bilderboden	nach Breughel	Volksbildungshaus, Stöbergasse, Vienna
1937	Golem	Wilckens	Volksbildungshaus, Stöbergasse, Vienna
1937	Mystischer Kreis	Reti	Volksbildungshaus, Stöbergasse, Vienna
1937	Orientalischer Tanz	Graupner	Volksbildungshaus, Stöbergasse, Vienna
1937	Passacaglia	Händel	Volksbildungshaus, Stöbergasse, Vienna
1937	Tango	Benatzky	Volksbildungshaus, Stöbergasse, Vienna
1948	Annunciation
1948	Emperors new Clothes	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1948	Pavane	Maurice Ravel
1948	Russian Fairy Tales	Alexander Borodine, Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
1948	Selfish Giant
1948	Tales and Legends in Modern Ballet
1948	Viennese Waltz	Johann Strauss II
1952	Dance with Cymbals on the Indian Ocean
1952	Dance with Tambourines	Fritz Dietrich
1952	Nocturne	Heinz Graupner
1952	Slavic Dance	Antonín Dvořák
1954	Aztec Cult (Sacrifice)
1954	Barbar the Elephant
1954	Old Vienna
1954	Orchid
1954	Rhythm of the East
1954	Selfish Giant
1954	Tibetan Prayer Songs
1955	Angels
1955	Dance Etudes
1955	Galliarde-Siciliano	Ottorino Respighi
1955	Hoops	Georges Bizet
1955	Jazz	Heinz Graupner
1955	Men & Horses	John S. Beckett
1955	Toccata	Paradies
1955	Under the Sea	Camille Saint-Saëns	Sadler's Wells Theatre
1955	Valse Caprice	Aram Khachaturian
1956	Etude
1956	Prelude	Johann Sebastian Bach
1956	Theme and Variations	George Frideric Handel
1957	Allegro Vivaci	Johann Sebastian Bach
1957	Bird
1957	Café Dansant	George Gershwin
1957	Egypt
1957	The Hunter and the Geese
1957	Madonna
1957	March	Lev Knipper
1957	Nativity	George Frideric Handel, Franz Schubert, Johann Sebastian Bach
1957	Sale	Johann Strauss II
1957	The Toyshop	Aram Khachaturian
1957	Stranger	Aaron Copland
1957	Witches Kitchen and Walpurgisnight	Paul Dukas
1958	Dance Divertissement
1958	Dance for four Women	Joaquín Turina
1958	Dance with Bells	John S. Beckett
1958	Ritual Fire Dance	Manuel de Falla
1958	Song of the Earth	Antonín Dvořák
1960	Allegro	Arcangelo Corelli
1960	Dawn of Life
1960	The Farmer’s Curst Wife	Peter Warlock
1960	Frankie and Johannie	Peter Warlock
1960	Imaginary Invalid	Gioachino Antonio Rossini
1960	Secret Annexe
1960	West Indian Spiritual
1961	Dance for Two	Germaine Tailleferre
1961	Egypt
1961	The House of Bernarda Alba (The Sisters)	Joaquín Turina		written by Federico Lorca
1961	Metamorphoses	Ovid
1961	Pierrot	Johann Sebastian Bach
1963	Dance for Men
1963	Dream	Wilckens
1963	Lady Isobel and the Elf Knight	Peter Warlock
1963	Narcissus (The Image)	Heinz Graupner
1965	Ballad of the Hanged (Villons Epitaph)
1965	Cain’s Morning
1965	Canticle of the Sun	Johann Pachebel
1965	Creation of Adam & Eve	Olivier Messiaen
1965	Nightwalkers	Olivier Messiaen
1965	Saint Francis and his sermon to the birds
1968	Angelic Prelude – Inspirations	Giuseppe Torelli
1968	Salome	Philip Croot
1968	Towards the Light	Edvard Greig	Sadlers Wells Theatre
1968	The Wise & Foolish Virgins	Philip Croot
1970	The Scarecrow
1971	Snowchild
1972	Bamboo	Khatshaturian	Commonwealth Institute
1972	Bauhaus	Erik Satie	Commonwealth Institute
1972	Embrace	Erik Satie	Commonwealth Institute
1972	Flight		Commonwealth Institute
1972	Hieronymus Bosch	Roger Cutts	Commonwealth Institute
1972	Honoré Daumier		Commonwealth Institute
1972	The Hypopatic Doctor	Gioachino Antonio Rossini, Franz Schubert	Commonwealth Institute
1972	Inspirations	Sergei Rachmaninoff, Claude Debussy	Commonwealth Institute
1972	Man against Flood	Yin Chengzong	Commonwealth Institute	based on book by Rewi Alley
1972	Prelude
1972	Renaissance, Scene on Earth, Scene on Heaven	Mompou, Gordon Langford, Banchieri	Commonwealth Institute
1972	Shiva and the Grasshopper	Gordon Langford	Commonwealth Institute	based on the poem by Kipling
1972	Suspension	Maurice Ravel	Commonwealth Institute
1972	Tranquillity	Alan Hovhaness	Commonwealth Institute
1972	Tribal Nocturne	Béla Viktor János Bartók	Commonwealth Institute
1974	Archaic
1974	Bamboo	Aram Khachaturian
1974	Egypt	Giuseppe Verdi
1974	Hieronymus Bosch	Roger Cutts
1974	The Hunter and the Hunted
1974	Paul Klee Spring Awakening	Béla Viktor János Bartók
1974	Renaissance	Federico Mompou
1974	Spring Awakening
1975	Inspirations	Sergei Rachmaninoff, Claude Debussy	The Hampstead Theatre
1975	Mobiles	Alfredo Casella	The Hampstead Theatre
1975	Paul Klee Spring Awakening	Belá Bartók	The Hampstead Theatre
1975	Rockpaintings	Roger Cutts	The Hampstead Theatre
1975	Toulouse Lautrec	Erik Satie	The Hampstead Theatre
1976	The Park
1977	Prelude and Chorale	César Franck
1977	Sacred and Profane Dance
1979	African Poetry
1979	Apsaras
1979	Homage to Barbara Hepworth	Heitor Villa-Lobos
1979	Prelude	Giuseppe Torelli
1979	Tower of Mothers	Carl Orff
1979	Tradisches Ballet			choreographed by Oskar Schlemmer
1979	We are Dancing	Johann Sebastian Bach
1983	The Bow and Arrow	David Sutton-Anderson	The Hampstead Theatre
1983	Fishes	David Sutton-Anderson	The Hampstead Theatre
1983	The Letter	Coleridge	The Hampstead Theatre
1983	The Manikin	Coleridge	The Hampstead Theatre
1983	The Penguin Story	David Sutton-Anderson	The Hampstead Theatre
1983	Pick a Back	Coleridge	The Hampstead Theatre
1983	Poems on a Boy’s Painting	David Sutton-Anderson	The Hampstead Theatre	poems by Ke Yan, pictures by Bu Di
1983	Sea and Sand		The Hampstead Theatre	poems by Rewi Alley
1983	Sea, Clouds, Sparkling Lighthouse, Flames		The Hampstead Theatre
1983	Umbrellas		The Hampstead Theatre	poems by Bu Di and Ke Yan
1983	What is a Poem	David Sutton-Anderson	The Hampstead Theatre
1984	The City	Marcel Rubin	The Hampstead Theatre
1984	Don Quixote	David Sutton-Anderson	The Hampstead Theatre
1984	Ritual	David Sutton-Anderson	The Hampstead Theatre
1984	Scherzo	Frédéric Chopin
1988	Children of the Vorstadt	Franz Lehár	The Hampstead Theatre
1988	Childrens' Games
1988	Death and the Maiden	Franz Schubert	The Hampstead Theatre
1988	Egon Schiele in Memoriam, The Dying Empire	Strauss	The Hampstead Theatre
1988	The Family	Hugo Wolf	The Hampstead Theatre
1988	Flemish Picture Sheet
1988	Fluteplayers
1988	Four Seasons	Antonio Vivaldi	The Hampstead Theatre
1988	Golem	Wilckens
1988	Hands	David Sutton-Anderson	The Hampstead Theatre
1988	The Least is the Most	Percussion: David Sutton-Anderson	The Hampstead Theatre
1988	Mechanical Ballet	Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack
1988	Models	Schubert, Schönberg	The Hampstead Theatre
1995	Whales
2000	Rhythms of the Unconscious Mind

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Spirit Levels	herself

References

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3. Sassenberg, Marina (2009). "Hilde Holger" in Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Jewish Women's Archive
4. Pascal, Julia (8 March 2000). "Adi Boman : Scientist on an unresolved search for a cancer cure". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
5. "Ardeshir Kavasji Boman Behram 1909–2000". sueyounghistories.com. 22 December 2008. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
6. Vernon-Warren, B. and Warren, C. (eds.) (1999) Gertrud Bodenwieser and Vienna's Contribution to Ausdruckstanz. Routledge. p. 22. ISBN 90-5755-035-0.
7. Lee, Rachel (2019). https://metromod.net/2019/04/04/hilde-holger/ "Bombay, Fieldwork, London: Hilde Holger"]. Metromod
8. Lei, W. (28 October 1972) "Man Against Flood". The New Evening Post(in Chinese).
9. Pascal, Julia (26 September 2001). "Hilde Holger : As a dancer and teacher she kept the spirit of German expressionism alive in London". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
10. 'List of Works', Aggiss and Cowie (eds) Anarchic Dance, Routledge, 2006, p.177
11. Sophie Constanti, 'Dancing Diva: Hilde Holger's choreography reaches the British stage at last and triumphs', Arts Section, The Guardian, 9 June 1993, p3-4
12. "Lindsay Kemp obituary". The Guardian. 2018. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
13. "British choreographer and mime Lindsay Kemp dies". The Guardian. 2018. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
14. Gulliver, J. (04 November 2010) "Prim Boman-Behram and the pioneering dancer Hilde Holger - Old letters reveal her mother’s true identity". Camden New Journal.
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18. "MoveABOUT Jacqueline Waltz's workshop". YouTube. 2019. Retrieved 23 June 2019.

Further reading

• Bernstein, Magda. Magda Nachman: An Artist in Exile. Academic Studies Press, 2020, ISBN 978-1-6446-9267-7
• Waltz, Jacqueline. Hilde Holger: Legacy of an Expressionist, Emigrant, Innovator, in Dance Today, The Dance Magazine of Israel, No. 36, pg. 39-43. Israel 2019. ISSN 1565-1568 .
• Amort, Andrea ed.: Alles Tanzt; Kosmos Wiener Tanzmoderne. Hatje Cantz, Berlin - Stuttgart 2019/20, ISBN 978-3-7757-4567-3. Exhibition at the Theatre Museum Vienna.
• Corbett O’Malley, Elizabeth: Hilde Holger and the Embodiment of the In-Betweenness. Hollins University, Virginia, USA 2019.
• Akinleye, Adesola and Helen Kindred: In-the-between-ness, Decolonizing and Re-inhabiting Our Dancing. In Narratives in Black-British dance. Middlesex University, London 2018.ISBN 9783319703138
• Sawyers, Adam and Geanina Beres: Indepen-Dance, an oral history (PDF), p. 46. Report on Inclusive Dance. Glasgow 2017.
• Barbieri, Donatella and Melissa Trimingham: Costume in Performance – Materiality, Culture, and the Body. Bloomsbury Academic 2017.ISBN 978-1-4742-3687-4
• Colah, Zasha: Body Luggage. Catalogue of Exhibition, Kunsthaus Graz 2016/7.
• Franz, Dr. Margit and Karl Wimmler: Fritz Kolb, Leben in der Retorte. Als österreichischer Alpinist in indischen Internierungslagern. In Gateway India. Deutschsprachiges Exil in Indien zwischen britischer. Kolonialherrschaft, Maharadschas und Gandhi. Clio, Graz 2015.ISBN 3902542314
• Chowdhury, Indira: A Season to Dance, Hilde Holger (1905-2001). In Kenneth X. Robbins: Jews and the Indian National Art Project. Publications, Research and Exhibitions. Niyogi books 2015.ISBN 9789383098545
• Herrberg, Heike and Heidi Wagner: Wiener Melange – Frauen zwischen Salon und Kaffeehaus. Ebersbach, Berlin 2014. 2nd Edition.ISBN 3869150939
• Franz, Dr. Margit: Exile meets Avantgarde, Exiles Art Networks in Bombay. In Margit Franz & Heimo Halbrainer: Going East – Going South. Austrian Exile in Asia and Africa. Graz 2014.ISBN 3902542349
• Faber, Dr. Monika: Tanz der Hände. Tilly Losch und Hedy Pfundmayr in Fotografien 1920-1935. Photoinstitute Bonartes, Walter Moser, Wein 2014.ISBN 3700318960
• Krejci, Harald and Patrick Werkner (curators): Wiener Kinetismus. A Dynamic show consisting of Cubist and Futurist paintings, and Vienna Kineticism – including a dance pose with Hilde Holger by Anton Josef Trcka. Belvedere, Vienna 2011.
• Kampe, Thomas: Between Three Worlds. Hilde Holger the choreographer (PDF), p. 20. In Charmian Brinson & Richard Dove: German-speaking Exiles in the Performing Arts in Britain after 1933. Rodopi, the Netherlands 2013. Vol. 14. Also see Marian Malet & Litz Pisk.ISBN 9042036516
• Amort, Andrea: Hanna Berger. Spuren einer Tänzerin im Widerstand. Brandstätter, Vienna 2010.ISBN 978-3-85033-188-3
• Maldoom, Royston and Jacalyn Carley: Tanz um dein Leben. Meine Arbeit, meine Geschichte. S. Ficher, Frankfurt 2010.ISBN 9783100473905
• Grunwald-Spier, Agnes: The Other Schindlers. The History Press, UK 2010.ISBN 0752457063
• Franz, Dr. Margit: German-speaking Medical Exile to British India 1933-1945, p. 71-72. In Konrad Helmut & Benedik Stefan: Mapping Contemporary History II. Exemplary fields of research in 25 years on Contemporary History Studies at Graz University. Böhlau, Wein – Koln – Weimar 2010.ISBN 3205785185
• Amort, Andrea: Free Dance in Interwar Vienna, p. 117-142. In Deborah Holmes & Lisa Silverman: Interwar Vienna. Culture between Tradition and Modernity. Camden House, New York 2009.ISBN 9781571134202
• Bury, Dr. Stephen: Breaking the Rules. The Printed Face of the Avant Garde 1900-1937. The British Library 2007/8. Videos by Liz Aggiss, Music by Billy Cowie.ISBN 9780712309806
• Aggiss, Liz and Billy Cowie: Anarchic Dance. Routledge, UK & US 2006.ISBN 9780415365178
• Riedl, Joachim: Wien, Stadt der Juden – Die Welt der Tante Jolesch (exhibition). Jewish Museum Vienna, Paul Zsolnay 2004.ISBN 3552053158
• Botstein, Leon and Werner Hanak: Quasi una fantasia – Juden und die Musikstadt Wein (exhibition). Jewish Museum Vienna 2003.ISBN 3936000069
• Carter, Alexandra: Rethinking Dance History, A Reader. Routledge, US & UK 2004.ISBN 9780415287470
• Waltz, Jacqueline: Creative and expressive Dance Movement Theory for older adults using the Holger Method – Who says it’s all down hill from here?. University of Herts., 2003.
• Unknown: Inclusive Dance. Springer 2003.
• Herrberg, Heike and Heidi Wagner. Wiener Melange 1902, Frauen zwischen Salon und Kaffeehaus. Edition Ebersbach, Berlin 2002.ISBN 978-3-86915-093-2
• Douer, Alisa and Ursula Seeber: Frauen in Wien. Ein Fotoband von Alisa Douer, mit Texten von Ursula Seeber. Magistrat der Stadt, Wien 2002.ISBN 3950097872
• Benjamin, Adam: Making an Entrance. Routledge, UK 2001.ISBN 0415251435
• Amort, Andrea and Mimi Wunderer-Gosch: Osterreich Tanzt, History and the Present. Festspielhaus, Wien, Koln, Weimar 2001.ISBN 3-205-99226-1
• Amort, Andrea: Tanz im Exil. Austrian Theatre Museum, exhibition 2000.
• Brandstatter, Christian: Antios – Anton Josef Trcka 1893-1940. Wein – Munchen 1999.
• Gesellschaft, Kestener: Anton Josef Trcka, Edward Weston, Helmut Newton. Scalo, Zurich – Berlin – New York 1998.ISBN 3931141888
• Coleman, Roger: Design Für die Zukunft. DuMont, Koln 1997.ISBN 3770141873
• Toepfer, Karl: Empire of Ecstasy, Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture, 1910-1935. University of California Press 1997.ISBN 0-520-20663-0
• Hammerschlag, Peter: Kringel, Schingel, Borgia. Turia und Kant, Wein 1997.
• Perret, René: Martin Imboden. Ein vergessener Fotograf.. Bern Benteli Verlag, Switzerland 1996.ISBN 3716510408
• Taschenbuch, Rowohlt: Jüdische Frauen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert Lexikon zu Leben und Werk. Reinbek bei Hamburg 1993.ISBN 9783499163449
• Dunlop MacTavish, Shona: Gertrud Bodenwieser. Zeichen and Spuren, Wien, Sydney 1992.ISBN 90-5755-035-0
• Vernon-Warren, Bettina & Charles Warren: Gertrud Bodenwieser and Vienna’s Contribution to Ausdrucktanz. Routledge 1992.ISBN 90-5755-035-0
• Jordan, Stephanie: Striding Out. Dance Books Ltd., London 1992.ISBN 1-85273-032-3
• Faber, Dr. Monika: Tanz Foto, Annaherunger und Experimente 1880 – 1946. Osterrerchisches Foto Archive in Museum Modermen Kunst; Museum des 20 Jahrhonderts, Wein 1990/1.
• Hirschbach, Danny & Rick Takvorian: Biography. Die Kraft des Tanzes, Hilde Holger – Wien, Bombay, London. Zeichen and Spuren, Bremen 1990.ISBN 3-924588-19-8
• Mayerhöfer, Josef: TANZ 20. Jhdt. In Wien. Ausstellungskatalog des Österreichischen Theatermuseums, Wien 1979. In Jarmila Weißenböck & Andrea Amort: Ausstellung und Katalog. Artikel-Nr.: FD5-774.

External links

• Official website
• Leslie Horvitz: The Hilde Holger Biography. hildeholger.com
• IMDb profile: Hilde Holger IMDb. imdb.com