Margaret Severn
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Margeret Severn (14 August 1901 – 7 July 1997) was an internationally acclaimed
dancer Dance is a performing art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolic value. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoi ...
who was most famous for using more than a dozen different Benda masks in the Greenwich Village Follies of 1921. She also played a dancer in the film '' The Good Provider'' (1922). A film about her work, ''Dance Masks'', was made by Peter Lipskis, distributed by The
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Extension Media Center, and reviewed by ''Choice''.v.21, p. 1314, 1984


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