Helen Lewis: Shadows Behind The Dance – Irish Times review 1st July 2023
Czechoslovakian dancer and choreographer Helen Lewis (1916-2009), survived the horrors of Auschwitz, to end up, through an unlikely twist of fate, bringing the holistic ethos of modern dance to Northern Ireland. It was her second marriage to her childhood sweetheart Harry Lewy, who was in the linen business, that brought her to Belfast, where she would pick up the lost thread that Irish-German modern dance pioneer Erina Brady started in Dublin in 1939. This was neither ballet nor Irish dancing, but something new, enlightened – and controversial.