born Feb. 9, 1910, Hartford, Conn., U.S.
died March 29, 2000, New York, N.Y.
U.S. modern dancer, choreographer, and teacher.
She studied with Martha Graham and danced with Graham's company (193038). In the early 1930s she also formed her own dance group, the Dance Unit. From 1939 to 1949 she spent part of each year as a teacher and choreographer in Mexico City, where she formed Mexico's first modern-dance group. Throughout her career and into the 1990s, she continued to form various companies and for them she often choreographed works on subjects of social concern.