Kurt Graff

Kurt Graff
Born1910
Bonn, Germany
Died1993
Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Known forChoreography
MovementModern dance
SpouseGrace Cornell Graff

Kurt Graff (1910–1993), a choreographer and dancer, was part of a professional dance duo with his wife, Grace Cornell Graff.[1] During the 1930s, Graff and Cornell established a ballet company, Graff Ballet,[2] and founded the Little Concert House, a dance studio, dance theater, and home,[3] in Chicago, Illinois. In the late 1940s, the Graffs moved to Hopkinton, New Hampshire and turned a colonial home into an artists' colony.[4] The property was known as Meadow Hearth Theatre Art Center.[5]

  1. ^ "Modern Dance in Modern Setting". The Marshall Morning News. May 4, 1933. p. 4. Retrieved January 19, 2022.
  2. ^ "3 Nov 1939, Page 5 - Dixon Evening Telegraph at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved January 12, 2022.
  3. ^ "Dance Dottings". The Daily Mail. January 28, 1936. p. 4. Retrieved January 19, 2022.
  4. ^ "Hopkinton NH Conservation Land and Trails" (PDF).
  5. ^ "Musical Score". Los Angeles Evening Citizen News. August 23, 1952. p. 7. Retrieved January 19, 2022.