Choreographer · Dancer

Julia Levien

American dancer, dance teacher, and choreographer

Born 1911Died 2006

Julia Levien was a choreographer and dancer, born in 1911, who died in 2006.

Biography

Julia Levien (October 9, 1911 – September 3, 2006) was an American dancer, dance teacher, and choreographer. She was an expert on the dances of Isadora Duncan and taught Duncan's style of dance. She was a dance pupil of Isadora Duncan’s student Anna Denzler, who danced under the stage name Anna Duncan, and founded the Duncan Dance Guild in the 1950s and the Duncan Centenary Company in 1977. Levien died at the age of 94 at her home on Roosevelt Island. One of her pupils was dancer Annabelle Gamson.

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