Sally gross dancer biography

American postmodernist dancer

Sally Gross (néeSarah Freiberg; August 3, – July 20, ) was an American postmodernist dancer.

Freiberg was a Lower East Side-born American dancer, choreographer and teacher of dance from her beginnings in the avant-garde NYC art world in the s until her death. Later known as Sally Gross, she was a notable participant of the avant-garde dance group called the Judson Dance Theater during the s. Gross died in Sag Harbor, New York on July 20, , aged 81, from ovarian cancer.^[1]

Background and career

Gross, the youngest child of Jewish immigrant parents from Poland, was born on the Lower East Side. She once created a dance based upon her experiences assisting in her father's pushcart vending business, speaking Yiddish, her first language. A graduate of Washington Irving High School and Brooklyn College, she continued to live and work in New York City throughout most of her life.^[1]

She began her da