Brainard, Ingrid

Ingrid Gretia Brainard (née Kahrstedt) was born on November 10, 1925 in Göttingen, Federal Republic of Germany. She was a noted musicologist, dance historian, performer and teacher of historical dance.

From early childhood Brainard studied several dance forms, including ballet, modern, mime, and Baroque dance. Her studies took her to Paris, where she studied mime under the famous Marcel Marceau (c.1950-1951). As an undergraduate at the Hochschule für Musik Mozarteum, in Salzburg, Austria, Brainard studied voice (major), and keyboard, opera, acting and directing (1943-46), moving to the Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen to study Musicology (major), German and English literature, and theater.

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