Nathanson, Lucile Brahms

Lucile Brahms Nathanson was an Associate Professor in the Department of Theater and Dance at Nassau Commmunity College in Garden City, New York. She held a B.S. and M.A. in Dance. Ms. Nathanson was the Founder and Director of Department of Teacher Training in Children's Dance 1956-62 and the Chairperson of Dance at the 92nd Street YM-YWHA in Manhattan. She studied dance with Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman until 1974 and was a member of the Charles Weidman Modern Dance Foundation.

Lucile Nathanson was instrumental in initiating, coordinating and attracting quality artists and dance educators to collaborate in creating effective programs and projects relating to dance and dance education. Three such projects were; The Freda Miller Memorial Fund, The Conferences on Creative Teaching of Dance To Children and The Weidman/Humphrey Book Project. They covered the span of twenty-one years, 1954-1975.

From the guide to the Lucile Brahms Nathanson papers, 1954-1974, (The New York Public Library. Jerome Robbins Dance Division.)