Mariam McGlone was an American dancer, dance critic, and educator.
Background
Born January 20, 1916, in New York City, daughter of Russian emigrant parents Abraham and Bertha Gessler Siwek, Mariam McGlone trained in classical ballet, entered Barnard College for a semester but left to join The Humphrey Wideman Company, led by Doris Humphrey and Charles Wideman and subsequently became an early member of the Martha Graham company in Manhattan.
Career
During the years leading up to World World War II, she worked in Hollywood performing in various films, among them Winged Victory, and training actors and dancers. In 1998, with Pam Tatge of the Wesleyan University Center for the Arts, Mistress McGlone became the artistic director of the Wesleyan Dance Master Classes which brought prominent and experimental choreographers from major and emerging dance companies to Wesleyan for an intensive weekend program which has now gained a national reputation.
Wesleyan University gives out the Mariam McGlone emerging Choreographer Award every year in her honor.
McGlone died at her home in Guilford, Connecticut, where she had lived for twenty-five years.