Beatty, Patricia (1936–)

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Beatty, Patricia (1936–)

Canadian dancer, teacher and choreographer. Born May 15, 1936, in Toronto, Canada; attended Bennington College; studied ballet as well as modern dance with Gladys Forrester, Gwynneth Lloyd, Pearl Lang, and at Martha Graham School.

One of Canada's most influential teachers of modern dance, founded New Dance Group (1966), which soon merged with the concert group of David Earle and Peter Randazzo to become Toronto Dance Theater (1967); served as artistic director and teacher at Dance Theater, where she also choreographed works, most notably Hot and Cold Heroes (1970) and Harold Morgan's Delicate Equilibrium (1974); choreographed Momentum (1967), First Music (1969), Study for a Song in the Distance (1970), Los Sencillos (1972), The Reprieve (1975) and Seastill (1979).