Elsa Kahl

Courtesy of Western Regional Archives

FOCUS

Performance Art

ROLE

Faculty

ATTENDANCE

1942 - 1944

Elsa Kahl Cohen was faculty from fall 1942 to summer 1944. College bulletins shared her arrival with "ELSA KAHL, leading director of the Ballet Jooss, came to teach “eukinetics”- a study of motion -when ballet disbanded last year."

Relationships

Husband: Fellow BMC faculty, Frederic Cohen

Saturday night dance, Dining Hall, Lake Eden Campus, ca. 1945
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