Zella Wolofsky

[6][7] Journalist Robert Sarti described her research as a way for choreographers to eventually be able to try out new movements, similar to how a composer might "doodle" on a piano.

Clement Crisp, the dance critic at The Financial Times praised her performance of this solo when he saw it at The Place, in London UK.

[11] She studied modern dance with Merce Cunningham, Viola Farber, Peggy Baker, Ruth Currier, Milton Myers, Bella Lewitzky and ballet with Alfredo Corvino and Maggie Black.

[6] Wolofsky was the first person who applied Labanotation, a system of human movements, to computers, which was part of her masters thesis.

[15] They had met when she taught at University of Waterloo in the late 1970s, but only started dating in 1987 after she began her doctoral studies.