Authored by Kanisha Greaves

Photograph of Eun Me Ahn from the William Harris Papers at Marymount Manhattan College

The William Harris Papers at Marymount Manhattan College consist of 96 unpublished scripts and 4,450 folders of newspaper clippings, playbills, and photographs accumulated by the collection’s namesake, William B. Harris. Harris was a drama and dance critic who amassed this collection until his death of a massive coronary in 2000. After his death, the collection was given to Marymount Manhattan College, which has a performing arts program. Included in this collection is the photograph of Eun Me Ahn pictured on the left. As a dancer and choreographer in Korea and later in New York from the mid 1990s to the early 2000s, the avant-garde dance style of Eun Me Ahn was acclaimed by the press as unusual, but powerful and deeply touching. Throughout her time in New York, she was dubbed the Korean answer to the sacrosanct Art of Japanese Butoh. Continue reading →