Frances Alenikoff, 91, Grandmother Of Multimedia Dance

“[She] an active participant in the artistic ferment in and around the lofts of SoHo at midcentury and afterward. By the 1950s her work had begun to take on aspects of what would now be called multimedia performance, employing slides and chanting to add color and meter to the dance.” She founded and ran two companies and continued performing into her 80s.