Mary Anthony (11 November 1916, in Newport, Kentucky – 31 May 2014, in Manhattan) was an American choreographer, modern dancer, and dance teacher.
Both her work as a dancer and choreographer were highly influenced by Martha Graham and Hanya Holm.
She danced in several productions with the New York City Opera during the 1950s and also choreographed several musicals in Italy during that decade.
Several of her pupils became highly successful choreographers and dancers, including Ronald K. Brown, Ulysses Dove, Yuriko Kimura, Richard Kuch, Daniel Maloney, Donald McKayle, Arthur Mitchell, Elisa Monte, Ross Parkes, Steve Rooks, and Richard Siegal.
In 1988, she was a guest modern dance teacher at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in the Department of Dance where she reconstructed Charles Weidman’s “Fables for our Times”, which was based on James Thurber’s Fables For Our Times and Famous Poems Illustrated.