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Multi-talented Dancer/Mime, painter, sculptor, costume and set designer, musician, screenwriter, Dramatist, Writer and best-selling author, Choreographer, Composer, & Theatrical Designer. Her real name was Anita Enters, which she changed into Angna [ahnjna] in the early 20s. She moved to New York as an art student in 1919 and began to study dance with Michio Ito in 1920. Soon she was performing in concerts as Michio's partner. In 1938 she created a solo piece or evocation of a statue of a Gothic Virgin, entitled Ecclesiastique. In 1939 she toured the US and Europe on a permanent basis presenting her program called "The Theatre of Angna Enters." In 1944 she was praised for her dance entitled "QDalisque of Turkish inspiration" in which she did the whole dance lying on a couch. Miss Angna Enters created " New Dance Moods." Was also billed as "America's Greatest dance Mime" in the 1920s and in the 1940s was hailed as "The Most Personal and Entertaining dancer in the Theater Today." Started her career in 1924 with her performance of "Stage Poems without words." She created her own costumes, choreography and sets for over 100 acts. Her acts consisted mainly of various women of different periods and countries. In 1934, Enters was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study Hellenistic art forms in Athens, Greece. |
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After her husband Louis Kalonyme's death in June of 1961 Enters accepted an invitation to be an artist-in-residence to the Dallas Theatre Center and Baylor University for the 1961-62 school year. She taught mime there, and spent next school year at the Wesleyan University in Connecticut. The book On Mime was the result of these years. Said to have been the first concert mime as well as being credited with creating the term "Dance Mime." After her career started to decline she took up teaching Mime, painting and writing with much more vigor.
In 1974 she suffered a physical collapse and was moved to a nursing home. Angna Enters died on February 25, 1989 in a nursing home in Manhattan. |
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| Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
April 18, 1897-1989 |
Louis (Kantor) Kalonyme (1936) |
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| 1944 - Hollywood Canteen |
Punch & Judy Theater |
1939 - Love Possessed Juana |
| Hollywood Knickerbocker |
Houston Little Theatre (1946-1948) |
1947 - Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival |
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Sterling Opera House |
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| Scaramouche (Choreo) |
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1932 - Arts & Decoration Magazine (by Enters) |
| Lost Angel (Choreo) |
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1937 - First Person Plural |
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1939 - Love possessed Juana (queen of Castile) |
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$ 1944 - Silly Girl (by Enters) |
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1945 - Best Short Stories 1945 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (Agna's Illustrations) |
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1955 - Among the Daughters |
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1958 - Artist's Life (by Enters) |
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$ 1965 - On Mime (by Enters) |
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$ 1989 - Uncommon Eloquence: A Biography of Angna Enters (by Dorothy Mandel) |
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