Dorothy Lyndall
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Dorothy Lyndall | |
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 Dorothy Lyndall in a bonnet and striped costume, from a 1916 newspaper. | |
| Born | May 4, 1891 Los Angeles, California, US |
| Died | May 11, 1979 (aged 88) Fontana, California, US |
| Occupations | Dancer, dance educator |
Dorothy Lyndall (May 4, 1891 – May 11, 1979) was an American dancer and dance educator.
Dorothy Stewart Lyndall was born in Los Angeles in 1891, the daughter of Charles Penny Lyndall and Deborah Stewart Lyndall.[1][2] She attended the University of California, Los Angeles.[3]
Career
Lyndall was a dancer in Los Angeles, performing and touring in the 1910s as a leading member of the Norma Gould Dancers.[4][5][6][7] Her frequent partner in dancing and teaching was dancer and model Bertha Wardell.[3][8] She also had her own long-running school of dance in Los Angeles.[9][10] Among her students in the 1930s were choreographer Myra Kinch[11] and Yuriko Kikuchi, who later danced on Broadway and with Martha Graham.[12] Another noted former student, Janet Collins, recalled Lyndall fondly: "Dorothy Lyndall was the greatest dance enthusiast and lover of the dance I have ever known. She loved the dance and loved dancers. She was literally a Socrates of the dance — she gathered dancers under her wings like a mother hen with her chicks."[13] Adrienne Dore danced in 1931 programs directed by Lyndall.[14][15]
In 1935, Lyndall and Myra Kinch taught a special course in eurhythmics at the University of Arizona's dance program,[16] which was under the direction of Lyndall's student Genevieve Brown Wright.[17] Lyndall was still teaching and touring in 1948, when she went to Hawaii to study children's dance programs, and was described as being frequently in Tucson, Arizona.[18] In 1951 she visited Genevieve Wright in Arizona.[19]
Lyndall was a member of the Dancers' League.[20] She also wrote poetry, some of which was published in The Lyric West.[21][22]
