NAME: Linden, Holgar (aka: Harold Friedkin?)

BIRTH DATE/LOCATION:
c. 1936

DEATH DATE/LOCATION:
18 June 1993, Philadelphia, age 47

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    IDENTIFICATION AND BIO:
    Holgar Linden danced with the Joffrey, Pennsylvania, Chicago and Houston Ballets, and he served as assistant to the Houston Ballet Master. Aside from dancing, Linden was a guest teacher and choreographed both in the United States and abroad, creating seven ballets. He was the winner of the Italian Cultural Institute Award in 1968. In 1976, according to Dance Magazine, Linden founded and became the director of the Maywood Academy and Ballet in Chicago. Linden died of AIDS-related causes.

    KEY CONTACT PERSON(S)/EXECUTOR OF ESTATE:
    None identified.

    HUMAN REPOSITORIES OF THE WORK
    (name and contact info, relationship to the artist and the work, assessment):
    None identified.

    VIDEO DOCUMENTATION
    (location, format, condition, assessment):
    None identified.

    PHOTOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTATION
    (location, format, condition, assessment):
    None identified.

    MOVEMENT NOTATION
    (location, type [including notes taken by dancers], assessment):
    None identified.

    PRODUCTION MATERIALS
    (scores, sound recordings, set/costume designs):
    None identified.

    ORAL HISTORY:
    None identified.

    PERSONAL PAPERS
    (location of newspaper clippings, printed programs, press releases, notes, files, diaries; assessment):
    A clippings file for "Linden, Holgar," is maintained in the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library, call number MGZR.

    IMMEDIATE NEEDS
    (archival assistance? storage? other?):
    Search for executor.

    OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION:
    None identified.

    LIST OR OVERVIEW OF WORKS
    (title, premiere date, music, production notes, performers):
    Not available.

    BIBLIOGRAPHY:

    • Dance Magazine. 1983. "Obituaries: Holgar Linden." October: 103-104.
         		 
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