Sybil Shearer

Sybil Shearer (born February 23, 1912, Toronto, Ontario, Canada - died November 17, 2005, Evanston, Illinois) was hailed as a "maverick" or "mystic" of modern dance. After graduating in 1930 from Newark High School in Newark, New York near Rochester, she studied at Skidmore College, graduating in 1934, and then pursued modern dance at Bennington College's summer workshops in Vermont, with Doris Humphrey, Martha Graham and Hanya Holm.

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    We don’t want bores in the theatre. We don’t want standardised acting, standard actors with standard-shaped legs. Acting needs everybody, cripples, dwarfs and people with noses so long. Give us something that is different.
    —Dame Sybil Thorndike (1882–1976)