Angna Enters
1907-1989

Angna Enters was the only child of daughter of Edward Enters, the youngest son of Hermann Enters, and Henriette Gasseur-Styleau. She was born in New York City on April 28, 1907, and died on February 28, 1989 at the age of 81.

Angna Enters was a mime, dancer, author, painter, sculptor, dramatist, composer choreographer, and theatrical designer. She was the first American concert mime, and coined the term ``dance-mime'' now in dictionaries.

She is the author of a number of books, several autobiographical.

1. First person plural. New York: Stackpole sons, 1937. 46 p., 1 l., 47-386 p. incl. front., illus. (music) plates (1 col.) 24 cm.
2. Love possessed Juana <queen of Castile> a play in 4 acts, New York: Twice a Year Press, 1939. 5 p. l., 8, [1], 7-198 p. col. front., 9 pl. on 5 l. 24 cm. Overture (musical score): 8, [1] p. "This copy is number -- of the special limited edition of one hundred copies ... signed by the author."
3. Silly girl, a portrait of personal remembrance. Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin company, 1944. x,1 l., 322 p. col. front., illus., plates (part col.) 20 1/2 cm.
4. Among the daughters, a novel. New York: Coward-McCann, 1955. 499 p. illus. 22 cm.
5. Artist's life. New York: Coward-McCann, 1958. 447 p. illus. 22 cm.
6. On mime, second edition. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1968 (first edition 1965). 132 p. illus. 22 cm.

In addition to these works, Angna and her husband, Louis Kalonyme, translated Edmond Rostand's Chantecler.

Some of her works are held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, as well as other museums. She painted the mural in the Penthouse Theatre of the University of Washington, Seattle. The Dance Collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts holds a special collection of her papers and works.

Dorothy Mandel has written Uncommon Eloquence: A Biography of Angna Enters, published by Arden Press (September 1986, ISBN 0912869070.

The John L. Brown papers held by the Georgetown University Lauinger Library Special Collections Division contains the self-portrait displayed above. The work, signed and dated 1963, is in ink and water color.