Marjorie guthrie and donald mckayle
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Marjorie Guthrie
American female dancer
Marjorie Guthrie (néeGreenblatt; October 6, 1917 – March 13, 1983), who used Marjorie Mazia as her professional name,[1] was a dancer, dance teacher, and health science activist.
Donald McKayle, for example) to have access to high-quality modern dance training.
She was married to folk musician Woody Guthrie. Her children with him include folk musician Arlo Guthrie and Woody Guthrie Publications[2] president Nora Guthrie.
She was a principal dancer with the Martha Graham Company.
With Graham's permission, she started her own dance studio where she taught Graham methods and style.
Due to her husband's affliction with Huntington's disease, she became an activist, founding a predecessor of the Huntington's Disease Society of America.
Life and work
Marjorie Greenblatt (Yiddish: חנה גרינבלאַט) was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States, on October 6, 1917, to Aliza Waitzman and Izadore Greenblatt.[3] Her parents were Jewish immigrants from Ukraine.[4] She had thr