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I created a new article on Hawkins, thinking that his name was spelled Erik. This is the spelling used in his Dance magazine obit, and what I had in mind from when I last saw him. Checking the Internet, it seems that Erick is the correct spelling. Since the current article has no sources, I am pasting my article's content below in the hopes that some-one will take any-thing of value from it and put it into the article here. Biography
Hawkins majored in Greek civilization at Harvard University, graduating in 1930. But a performance by the German dancers Harald Kreutzber and Yvonne Georgi so impressed him that he went to Austria to study dance with the former. Later, he studied at the School of American Ballet. Soon he was dancing with George Balanchine's American Ballet. In 1937, he choreographed his first dance, Show Piece, which was performed by Ballet Caravan.
The next year, Hawkins was the first man to dance with the company of the famous modern dancer and choreographer Martha Graham. The following year, he officially joined her troupe, dancing male lead in a number of her works, including Appalachian Spring in 1944. The two were married in 1948. Though he left her troupe in 1951 to found his own, they were not divorced until six years after they'd been married.
Not long afterwards, he met and began collaborating with the experimental composer Lucia Dlugoszewski. They remained together for the rest of his life. company[2]
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1. ^ Doris Hering "Erik Hawkins Dance Company, Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse, February 18-23, 1997". Dance Magazine. August 1997. FindArticles.com. 24 May. 2008. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1083/is_n8_v71/ai_19626892 2. ^ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1083/is_n2_v69/ai_16686049/pg_
