O'Donnell, May

O'Donnell, May
▪ 2005

      American dancer and choreographer (b. 1906, Sacramento, Calif.—d. Feb. 1, 2004, New York, N.Y.), performed with the Martha Graham and José Limón dance companies, creating a number of notable roles, including the Pioneer Woman in Graham's Appalachian Spring (1944). She also taught dance all over the U.S., had a choreographic career that spanned more than half a century, and founded two dance companies—the San Francisco Dance Theater (1939), with her husband, composer Ray Green, and the May O'Donnell Dance Company in New York City (1949).

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