 Hilde Holger started to dance at age six.At that time she was too young to join the "Vienna State Academy of Music and Dramatic Art", so she settled for ballroom dancing lessons taken with her sister (Hedi Sofer), until she was accepted to study with radical dancer Gertrud Bodenwieser, then a professor at the Vienna State Academy.They were admirers of the work of Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis, as well as the artists of the Secession.