Music: Greatest Influence

Followers of the dance were fairly dizzy last week over the importance of an event in Manhattan. Their enthusiasm invaded the smartcharts and artcharts until lay men also began to feel that they owed it to their development to see the German dancer, Mary Wigman. The house sold out for her debut recital; five more performances were announced and a tour as far west as Chicago. Dancers say solemnly that Mary Wigman is the Greatest Influence of the modern dance. She is a follower of Isadora Duncan in that she repudiates the formal ballet...

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