Sophia Delza collection, [19--?-ongoing].
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Delza, Sophia
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American dancer, writer, and teacher of tai chi, Sophia Delza (1903-1996) had an exceptionally long and varied career. Delza already had achieved prominence as an independent modern dance performer and choreographer by the mid-1940s, but after 1951 she embarked on a second career as an authority on tai chi and Chinese classical theater. Born Sophie Hurwitz, Delza grew up in Brooklyn, as a part of a large, extended family. Among her siblings were the future documentary fi...