The Historical event during this time

Historical world events during Holm's time:

1. In Germany 1921-1931: 

        After World War I, Germany experienced the most compelling hyperinflation in the history. At the end of the war, the Allies need Germany pay huge reparations. This huge payment caused the budget deficit in German, and then Germany paid the ultimate payments through fund-raising large numbers of money for reparations. Germany's currency and prices are rising at an alarming rate from January 1922 to December 1924.This situation spiralled out of control and once again the German people were unhappy and in financial difficulty, so uprisings occurred throughout the country. 

         At this time, Hanya Holm meet Mary Wigman and joined Wigman's company and soon advanced to the position of chief instructor and co-director of the Mary Wigman Central Institute in Dresden. In 1929, she danced the princess in one of the early productions of The Soldier's Tale which is her first solo for which she did her own choreography. In 1931, she leave Germany and settled in United States.

2. In United States: 1929-1933 great depression 

           Before World War II, most countries include United States into the most serious depression. This great depression brought a devastating blow in both developed and developing countries. At this special period, this German woman - Hanya Holm open a modern dance school based on principles of German expressionist dance. It was a big rsiky move during the Great Depression, especially with America’s growing anti-immigrant sentiment. But the intrepid Hanya Holm would prove triumphant, becoming one of the most influential teachers of American modern dance. She transformed the German expressionist principles of modern dance to fit her new life in America—the intensity of Wigman’s dances became freer and more abstract.