Up from the Deep South

Thais Grace Barry was born in Stone County, Mississippi, and attended Ohio State University and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she majored in dance. She has taught dance at the City University of New York, Barnard College, and Teachers College, Columbia University, and holds a Master of Arts and Doctorate of Education from Teachers College, where she was the head of the Dance Education Program for eighteen years. A long-time member of the Tamiris-Nagrin Dance Company, she currently lives in New York City.