Dancer

Grace Cornell Graff

American ballet and modern dancer (1906-1992)

Born 1906 · ChicagoDied 1992United States
Grace Cornell Graff
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Grace Cornell Graff was an American dancer, born in 1906 in Chicago, who died in 1992.

Biography

Grace Cornell Graff (born Grace Cornell, 1906–1992), an American ballet and modern dancer, was part of a professional dance duo with her husband, Kurt Graff. During the 1930s, the Graffs established a ballet company, Graff Ballet, and founded the Little Concert House, a dance studio, dance theater, and home, in Chicago, Illinois. In the late 1940s, the Graffs moved to Hopkinton, New Hampshire and turned a colonial home into an artists' colony. The property was known as Meadow Hearth Theatre Art Center.

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Contemporaries

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