She attended Los Angeles Polytechnical High School, graduating in 1908, and during summers studied dance in New York City.

[3] They traveled to New York together in 1914, but their personal and professional partnership soon dissolved; Shawn joined Ruth St. Denis, and Gould returned to Los Angeles.

[4] She worked with large groups of dancers in Los Angeles, during and after World War I, creating events for outdoor celebrations and club entertainments,[5] including the opening of the Ventura Bathhouse and Auditorium in 1918.

Her dance compositions included The Fern Fantasy (1919),[11] Dianidra (1921),[12] Shepherd of Shiraz (1928), The Twilight of the Gods (1929), and Lenox Avenue (1938).

[1] "Miss Gould is perhaps the best known exponent of dramatic and aesthetic dancing on the Pacific Coast," commented one California newspaper in 1931.