[1] Shortly after birth, her family moved to San Francisco, returning with her mother to Dresden in 1909.

[2] She had ballet lessons with Heinrich Kröller from 1914 to 1916 and from 1917 to 1918, she attended Margarete Balsat's school for upper-class girls in Dresden.

[3][1] From 1921, when she changed her name to Gret Palucca, until 1923, she studied with Mary Wigman and she performed as a member of her Chamber Dance Group.

[8][9] Palucca's work was included in the 2021 exhibition Women in Abstraction at the Centre Pompidou.

[10] Her students included Ruth Berghaus, Lotte Goslar and Dore Hoyer.