Trudl Dubsky

Trudl Dubsky and Herbert Zipper memorial plaque, Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Santa Monica, Los Angeles

Trudl Dubsky Zipper (31 January 1913 – 3 July 1976) was an Austrian-American innovative dancer, choreographer and teacher.

Born in Vienna, she trained and performed with the Bodenwieser School and was renowned for her dynamic modern dancing and high leaps.

She co-founded the Rutherston-Dubsky School in London and later performed and taught in the Philippines. Dubsky was also an accomplished visual artist and her paintings of Manila during the Japanese occupation were published in Life Magazine.

Dubsky continued as a teacher and choreography throughout her life, including at the Chicago Conservatory of Music, and later at the University of Southern California. The Colburn Dance Institute was renamed the Trudl Zipper Dance Institute in 2008 to honor this woman.

She was married to the composer Herbert Zipper, whom she married in the Philippines in 1939. She died in Los Angeles in 1976.