Henri Chatin-Hofmann

Henri Châtin Hofmann (May 25, 1900 – January 7, 1961) was an American dancer; in 1925 he married Anita Berber and started performing with her in Europe.

[3] He attended the Calvert School and St. John's College and gave his first recitals in the Vagabond Players Theater.

In Berlin, they caused a stir with a completely naked dance inserted in a film screening of Dante's Divine Comedy.

[5] Klaus Mann sensitively describes the couple in his obituary of Anita Berber in the magazine Die Bühne (1930).

He spent many years as a patient in Spring Grove, a state hospital at Baltimore, where he died on January 7, 1961.

Helena Shelda in the Snake Charmer Dance