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Mimi Kagan

American dancer (1918–1999)

Born 1918 · SamaraDied 1999United StatesRussian Empire
Mimi Kagan
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Mimi Kagan was an American choreographer and dancer, born in 1918 in Samara, who died in 1999.

Biography

Mimi Kagan (1918–1999; née Miriam Gabrilovna Kagan, and also known as Miriam Odza, Mimi Kagan Kim) was a Russia-born American modern dancer, choreographer, educator and dance journalist. She was the founder of the avant-garde Mimi Kagan Dance Group and was active and influential in modern dance and choreography in New York City, the San Francisco Bay Area, Princeton, New Jersey and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

From the Wikipedia article “Mimi Kagan”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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