(2021) describes it as "a somatic movement, dance and creative practice with a core underlying principle of releasing blocked energy, held tension, and habitual patterns of body mind.
It enables us to move with greater freedom and ease whilst awakening creativity and spontaneity".
As a child she participated in 'interpretive dancing' classes led by Cora Bell Hunter - who had been taught by Mabel Elsworth Todd, author of the book The Thinking Body.
[citation needed] On leaving high school in 1942 Skinner gained a scholarship to study theatre, music and dance at Bennington Arts College, Vermont.
[citation needed] After a number of years of teaching at the Martha Graham Centre and performing in the company, she left in 1950.
[citation needed] Shortly afterward she went on a concert tour choreographed by Jerome Robbins and Ray Harrison.
From 1964-66 she was artist in Residence at The Walker Arts Centre and Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis after which she returned to the University of Illinois for a year, 1966-1967.