Though ice skating has been around for centuries, it only came into its current form and fashion in the mid-19th century and was still taking shape as a professional and competitive sport when Charlotte Oelschlägel took up the activity.
Donna Jackson started the Women’s Circus to enable women to come together to train in a non-competitive, supportive and safe environment.
Chief Executive & Equity Officer, Ashé Cultural Arts Center (US)
Performer known as “the Little Georgia Magnet”
In September 1883 she gained local attention by demonstrating mysterious abilities: chairs, canes, and umbrellas, held by others, seemed gripped by an invisible power when Hurst touched them lightly.
The “grandmother of American puppetry” because of her practical and scholarly knowledge of marionettes.
American equestrienne, daredevil rider, vaudeville performer, and from 1929 to 1966 the owner and operator of Parker’s Ranch in Ohio
Lucille “Sweets” Preston rose to prominence in the 1930s as a vaudeville dancer at the Cotton Club and member of the Slim & Sweets comedy duo.
The US’s most influential teacher and accomplished master of chado tea ceremonies
Chinese-American rod puppeteer