Choreographer

Margaret Severn

American dancer

Born 1901 · BirminghamDied 1997
Margaret Severn
Image: Unknown photographer · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Margaret Severn was a choreographer, born in 1901 in Birmingham, who died in 1997.

Biography

Margeret Severn (14 August 1901 – 7 July 1997) was an internationally acclaimed dancer who was most famous for using more than a dozen different Benda masks in the Greenwich Village Follies of 1921. She also played a dancer in the film The Good Provider (1922).

A film about her work, Dance Masks, was made by Peter Lipskis, distributed by The University of California, Berkeley Extension Media Center, and reviewed by Choice.

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